Hi guys,
I trust you’ve all had a nice long weekend; another public holiday, come and gone.
I find that ‘employees’ love public holidays, but employers like me, dread them, because I think we just have way-way too many public holidays in Nigeria
Anyway, it’s good to be back at work, and back at my desk, touching base with you. As a follow-up to my blog entry - What’s in a Name, I’d like to respond by giving you the meanings of my names.
I’ll have to do a literal translation because that’s exactly the only way in which one can describe such.
So, here we go: My first name Mosun-mo-la.
Mosun means move,
mo means to, and
ola means riches or wealth;
Mosunmola is thus translated as: move to riches or wealth
My second name is Fola-ke-mi.
Fola means use wealth or riches
Ke means to care
Mi means for me;
Folake is translated as: use wealth or riches to care for me.
My oriki, Aji-fowo-ke, as Mandy requested, has the following meaning:
aji means you wake up in the morning
fowo means use wealth;
ke means to care
Ajifowoke therefore means: wake up in the morning and use wealth to care for me
I wasn’t there when I was given all these names, o! I can only assume that there must have been a reason why I wasn’t called Nike, or Bunmi or Tunde, or Shola, or Sade.
And just in case you’re wondering, I’m still waiting for the dollars to roll in!
That’s it for today. I can’t wait to read your comments.
I wish you a blessed and highly favoured week ahead!
