Biography of lasagna sekou nkrumah

BBC Africa Live asks, does your name affect who you are?

Ghana's founding father Kwame Nkrumah chose to name his two sons after fellow African leaders.

Sekou Nkrumah was named after Guinea's first President Sekou Toure, while Gamal Nkrumah got his name from Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.

The Son of Kwame Nkrumah and Sekou Toure, Social Justice Movements

Nkrumah is not alone in fostering the identity of Africanism - the late President Mobutu Sese Seko dropped his own Christian name and even renamed his country - the then Belgian Congo - which became Zaire.

But 32 years later the late Laurent Kabila kicked Mobutu out, and re-baptised the country the Democratic Republic of Congo.

His reason was to rid the country of all of Mobutu's influence and he felt a change of name was the way to do it.

Naming is part and parcel of the African heritage. It reflects one's ethnic background, country of origin, or simply hope and a parent's aspiration for a child.