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© Roland Freeman

A Nigerian Yoruba Naming Ceremony
in the Washington DC Area

• The ceremony
  • Who's who, what happens
  • Ewi naming ceremony poem
  • Yoruba name list, with meanings and sound
  • The ritual table: tasting the world
• Related pages
  • Nigerian recipes
  • Washington, DC newspaper report of naming ceremony, 1971
  • Suggested reading

Links to Yoruba Web pages
[CFCH Home] [credits]

21 April 1996