Names in West Africa
| Akan languages (Fante, Twi, Baoule) | Dondo, Odondo |
| Bambara, Bozo, Dyula | Tamanin |
| Dagbani, Gurunsi, More | Lunna or Donno |
| Hausa | Kalangu, Dan karbi, |
| Igbo | |
| Songhai | Doodo |
| Serer, Wolof, Mandinka | Tama or Tamma |
| Yoruba | Dundun, Gangan |
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Famous quotes containing the words names, west and/or africa:
“A name? Oh, Jesus Christ. Ah, God, I’ve been called by a million names all my life. I don’t want a name. I’m better off with a grunt or a groan for a name.”
—Bernardo Bertolucci (b. 1940)
“Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.”
—Philip Guedalla (1889–1944)
““I’ll love you dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)