If there's one thing I like, it's linguistic diversity, and by consequence diversity in names. It doesn't just affect people of recent African descent, but at a guess they would be in the majority here:
Immigrants have always changed their names, sometimes because they couldn't get them pronounced properly in their new country, sometimes because they wanted to fit in, but I think the emphasis here is on forced changes.
If there's one thing I like, it's linguistic diversity, and by consequence diversity in names. It doesn't just affect people of recent African descent, but at a guess they would be in the majority here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/09/my-full-name--tanyaradzwa-stars-reclaiming-names-thandiwe-newton
Immigrants have always changed their names, sometimes because they couldn't get them pronounced properly in their new country, sometimes because they wanted to fit in, but I think the emphasis here is on forced changes.