Name Change
Safiya Songhai. Safiya means clear and pure minded woman in the Swahili language. After searching for several years to find a surname to match, she chose Songhai from the largest and most accomplished 15th and 16th century West African Empire, now present-day Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, whose leaders emphasized education and social, economic and gender equality. Her ancestry comes from the Yoruba, Kpelle, Bamileke and Mandika people of Western and Central Africa.
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