An aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri has cautioned Africans who adopt European names for their children.
According to the outspoken author, blacks Should be proud of their native names as it doesn’t hinder them from becoming great. He sighted the likes of Kofi Annan, Chinua Achebe, Sade Adu, Wole Soyinka, Akiko Dangote, Ras Tafari Makonnen, Barack Obama, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, as the greatest Africans on planet earth who became great with their black names, “emulate them”, he advised.
He took to his Facebook page to write;
“I am extremely well-travelled and Africans are the only people I know, who take pride in speaking a foreign language with a perfect accent, even when they can’t speak their native language. Keep your culture alive. Speak your language to your children. It does not make them local. It makes them vocal!