Nancy Nkansah

[ 1 ] - A Literary Anthroponomastics of Three Selected African Novels: A Cross Cultural Perspective

Names as markers of identity are a source of a wide variety of information. This paper explores the names of characters to show the sociocultural factors which influence the choice of names and the effects that the names of these characters have on the roles they play. Using a variety of personal names from Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments, Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood, a...