I believe I already mentionned how tough it was to recruit partners in African countries, when everyone seems to have a combination of 3 first and 5 last names. In West Africa for example, imagine having to keep track of Mamadou Diallo, Seydou Li, and Li Diallo's paperwork. Utter Nightmare.
Today, I am preparing paperwork for a lady called Jeanne d'Arc Atanganamadi*. Joan of Arc Atanganamadi. That's a tough name to carry!
*Not the real last name but a similar combination of vowels and consonants.
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Ohhhh let me guess !
Rwanda? Burundi?
So amusing. I met a Burundian guy last fall whose first name was Monastere (Monastery) - Divorced twice, 10 kids !
Other popular names... Pacific, Evangeline, Deogratias (Thank god), Esperandieu (hopes in god). They've gone biblical, I tell you !
The all time winner though is Had-I-Known (I promise you, it's a true story.) HIK was managing one of our suboffices in Zimbabwe (my mentor told me that one). I have to suppress both a chuckle and a shudder when I think of it.
Yes it was Rwanda! "Had-I-Known" is such a cool name!
"Had I Known sex produced babies, I wouldn't have participated!".
*chuckle*
I wonder what the parents were thinking. There's something to be said for restraint when naming children... Poor kid !
But the funny names are everywhere! There's a Quebecois hockey player called "LaTendresse", no joke.
In Spain some years ago, you could find little girls called "Grace Kelly" and little boys called "Kevin Costner", not joking!
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