In Igbo cosmology, names are not ornamental. They are arguments about how to live. They are compressed philosophies, moral blueprints spoken aloud at dawn and repeated at dusk. To name a child is not to label him; it is to locate him - within history, within metaphysics, within expectation. Consider
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