Names

Names in Zimbabwe, or maybe on this continent in general, are quite funny. Of course there are a lot of people with Ndebele names that we cannot even pronounce, but it seems like half of the parents give their children whatever word they come up with at the moment of namegiving, and the other half have words with a very specific meaning. Whether everyone understands the meaning of these names, is another story...

Like:

Forward
Blessing (We heard of a pair of twins that were called Blessing and Blessed)
Blessed
Prosper
Precious
Wonder
Happiness
Wonder
Handsome
Immaculate
Faith
Charity
Lovemore
Liberty
Furnace
Continueloving
Official
Malaria
Enough
Boys
Bigboy
Job
Children
Bobmarley
Percysledge
Doesntmatter
Precautious
Obama
Forget
Remember
Businessman
Pavement
Africa


Half of these are names of friends and people from BUYISAP and NYDT, the other half some guys that just walked into the office are giving me. They are actual names, it is not like they have a traditional name and an English name.