Free eBook. How to select your African name (with a Free lesson plan)

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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 of students in Oakland Park, Florida, read about Dr. Asante’s journey of changing his name from Arthur Smith to Molefi Kete Asante (which means “protector of traditions''). The students (who are descended from slaves) used Dr. Asante’s method to select their own African names.

They came up with a method called “What two words define you?” and their history teacher put the materials together in a free ebook. You can download the complete ebook at www.TINYURL.com/selectYourName.

The students have not legally changed their names, but they enjoy calling each other by their adopted names: Tunu Ijii (calm in the storm) and Nguvu Ooto (strong and honest).  Their teacher, Maneno Mazuri (kind words) welcomes suggestions about how to improve the ebook.  

The ebook includes a lesson plan and handouts to make it easy for teachers to engage their students in this exercise.  Mini-posters encourage viewers to consider the meaning of “we are all Africans,” which is the next step in the process of reclaiming heritage

Spread this link:  www.tinyurl.com/selectyourname22 for a free shorter ebook