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 Go here The story behind Dr. Asante’s African name: In 1972 I visited Ghana during the first of what were to be eighteen trips to Africa over the next twenty years. UCLA had graciously consented to allow me to visit Africa in my capacity as the Director of the Center for Afro-American Studies. I asked a librarian at the University of Ghana in Legon whether my book The Rhetoric of Black Revolution had reached his campus. He replied, "Yes, but I thought the author Arthur Smith was an Englishman." He could not understand how a black person could have an English name. I vowed that I would change my name. The name Arthur L. Smith, Jr., inherited from my father, has been betrayed by the dungeon of my American experience. Soon thereafter I added the name Molefi (which means "One who gives and keeps the traditions" ) to the name that I started with (Arthur Smith). Excerpt from the quote that appears in Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molefi_Kete_Asante A group...