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Vubundada_Kandaba · (#36 (**permalink**))

Shemsi en Tehuti wrote:

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I have thought about simply choosing a name that is either Igbo, Sudanic/Kush*tic, Kuban, amongst others. However, then comes the task of validating my name. For instance, I don't know any Kuba people; only what I have studied of them from books. If I "connect" with a particular Kuban name, then how am I to validate this?

As for continental Africans not even having certainty about their lineage, part of this I believe is due to the continued acceptance of the European borders defining the present states of Africa. These borders were carved out separating people of the same cultures/clans, thus creating superficial barriers along with superficial junctions. You are correct that we have been migrating both southward and northward for thousands of years. Oh, and best believe I am still trying to make my way to Africa...who knows, I might find myself a wife.

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Just to add to what is being discussed. My ethnic group is found in three Countries because of Colonialism, in Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, and as a result I have relatives and family living in all three Countries. The damn Europeans divided our land among three Countries.

As to the issue of choosing which names and from which part of Africa; I would say it really does not matter where the name comes from as long as it is African. For instance my family name is also found among the Zulus of South Africa and we do share some names even though the Zulus are at one end of Africa and we are in the other end. Africans have always migrated and the history of our people states that we migrated Southwards from the North; somewhere close to Egypt and some claim we come from somewhere in Northern Ethiopia moving south slowly and intermarrying and intermingling along the way. Further examples of intermarrying is on my Mothers side, myGrandmothers clan/tribe actually came from the Northern Part of DRC near to Central Africa, migrated to Sudan andwere absorbed into my Grandfathers tribe. As a result some of the names we use are also found inother countries because of all this movements.