Baserbillion......I dont really understand how the economic hardship of the Africans you saw becomes an obstruction to changing a name. It doesn't change history......or is the issue that you were a little ashamed ?

I'm not trying to accuse you, but I dont quite see the connection. The difference between your access to material things and those poorer Africans you saw is no different to a Ghanaian or Nigerian who lives in the west and those back home who just dont have the same economic standing.

If you had gone to a rich community where people had more than you, would your stand be different?

I understand that the experience of often quite startling, but it still doesn't change your history.......your roots are still in Africa.

I think its more about how you see the situation. The fact that pencils were currency, to me, is something which would make me proud. In some communities that are deep in poverty, its crack or alchohol which becomes their currency. The people you saw see education, self development as their way out of the situation. Its just like kids who walk miles to go to school or do their homework by candlelight.........I would be proud of those people.

Anyhoo.....at least you are being honest about it.