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Ethiopia: naming system 101

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopia, Arts & Culture, History

Enset discusses Ethiopian naming system, “As a person who had a hard time understanding the idea of a family name and did not like being called by my grandfather's name when I first came to the United States, I did not know what to make of the gentleman's assertion that the current naming system is an imposed one.”