The Meaning of My Names

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!