African Identity: Drop your foreign names (video)

POEM : What’s in a name?

By Emeka Chiakwelu

The modus letters are enumerated

Or how the balkanized words linger

The way it’s voiced

Or to whom it belongs

Then, what’s to a name?

To the history it belongs

Or how larynx fickle with it

Is it the way it looks?

Appears lazy … fast before the eye?

Or is it the way it sounds?

Handsome, antiquated, oddity or strange?

Can it sound positive?

Can it sound melodious?

Can it sound timid?

What’s in a name?

… Pronouncing or spelling?

Or unbearable attention it summons

What’s it connotes

Good or bad, beautiful or ugly

What’s in a name?

… the name or the person?

What is a name?

Yes… it’s the language

No . . . it’s the yesteryears

History…Do tongue know . . . anymore?