Do Africans needs to stop naming their children after animals?

Every tribe in Africa is naming child after animal, season, weather/climate, time, flowers, trees e.t.c.
Do these naming has impact on child i.e behavior and spiritual?

By naming child after animal affect child living? The answer to the question is NO, children named after animal doesn’t behave like animals or spiritually connected to the animal.

African ethics group name children after departed relatives to appease the spirits, also through naming African parents name child to show gratitude to God.

Naming for decades has been considered the first special gift parents usually give to their new born babies., As God gave parents powers to name everything on universe including their children, these means once you name a child God recognize the name.

Historic day naming is one of the popular naming worldwide.

Christianity encourage parents to name their new born babies after Biblical authors to spread gospel awareness from generation to generation, in other hand Parents have the rights to name their children any name that pleases them but at Baptism the Priest will give the child a Biblical author name, this is according to Roman Law ( the laws of Roman Society/ Church laws ).

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