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Apart from my usual Pan-African polemics, satires and the rest, it appears that my sharing of Yoruba proverbs is also very popular among my readers.
Today, I want to try to introduce Yoruba names into the mix. I hope that you will like them.
What I intend doing is to explain what a Yoruba name means. Yes, Yoruba people do not give their children meaningless names. Every name has meaning.
Where best to start than with my own name: Femi.
Femi is a dimunitive form of Olúwafẹ́mi:
Olúwa (God)
Fẹ́ (Love)
Mi (Me)
Let’s turn to Wikipedia for a more involved explanation.
Fẹ́mi is a common Nigerian given unisex name of Yoruba origin which means "love Me".
Femi is most commonly a diminutive form of "Olufemi" (or Olúfẹ́mi) which means The Lord loves me
("Olú" means Lord, Leader, or the "Prominent one," in the Yoruba language).
Olufemi can also be diminutive of Olúwafẹ́mi.
Other full forms of the name include Olorunfemi (God loves me), Jesufemi (Jesus loves me), Nifemi (Have my love), Babafemi (Father loves me), Obafemi (The King loves me), Adefemi (Royalty loves me), Ifafemi (Ifa loves me) etc.
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Fẹ̀mi Akọ̀mọ̀làfẹ̀
(Farmer, Writer, Published Author, Essayist, Polemicist, Satirist, and Social Commentator.)
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