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Nnamdi
Nnamdi Like Babatunde in the Yoruba tradition, Nnamdi names a child as the vessel of an ancestor's continued life — a declaration that death does not sever the lineage. Characters named Nnamdi in fiction are often positioned at the confluence of past and present, bearing the double burden of their own identity and the expectations of a patrilineage that uses their very name to refuse mortality.
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