that a child must be rich in names whatever happens later on, so uncles, grandfathers and great grandfathers all give names so that the child is very wealthy and my names are..." Wole Soyinka is solemnly speaking about his roots with a twinkle in his eyes and reeling off a string of names. " . . . and one or two others which I can't remember . . . in addition to our lineage. In the lineage song, which has the interpolation of all those names, you feel like a king."
from The Hindu: 'I am a realist'
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