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Baby Names: Real Names With Real Meanings for African Children

Baby Names: Real Names With Real Meanings for African Children
Authors: Tyra Mason, Sam Chekwas
Publisher: A & B Distributors
Category: Book

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Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars 1 reviews
Sales Rank: 770796

Format: Large Print
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 183
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.4

ISBN: 1886433135
Dewey Decimal Number: 929.4408996073
EAN: 9781886433137

Publication Date: September 1999
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Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Too bad you can't leaf through the pages before you buy.   February 8, 2000
 39 out of 42 found this review helpful

This book claims in its introduction, to be superior to other baby names because of its accuracy but clearly it it poorly edited, with names with no meanings and meanings with no names. The bulk of the book does not define if names are masculine, feminine or unisex, and in the one section that does, there are clearly feminine meanings in the male name section. In addition, the title of the book led me to be believe that it would be ALL African names but instead, there are entire pages with no African names, but rather Eurocentric names that some African Americans have used for their children in the past. Worst of all is that some of the "African names" are not names at all. Who would name their child "Ugly woman", "evil" or after a particular "market place". My husband and I thought there were some nice choices for girls names, but you really have to read carefully.




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