I am doing an assignment where I have to create a life for an exile and the person I picked is from Niger. Does anyone know any last names in Africa?
2007-02-01 11:05:39 · 3 answers · asked by cheeeeer 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
Africa is a very large, very diverse continient. There is no such thing as an "African" last name.
The population of Niger consists of numerous different ethnic groups: Hausa (the largest), Djerma-Songhai, Gourmantche, Fulani, Tuareg, Kanuri, Arabs, and Toubou, so this is more properly asking for Hausa last names. One easy way to get some appropriate last names for residents of a given country would be to look at a list of leaders/persons from that country. Some last names from Niger's history/politics are: Diori, Kountché, Saibou, Tandja, Amadou, and Ousmane.
Remember too that as Nigeriens are (mostly) Muslim and French-speaking, your person may have a French or Francophone Muslim first name
2007-02-02 09:24:25 · answer #1 · answered by Lieberman 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mugabe, Amin, Selassie, Botha, Tutu,. Read newspapers, magazines and history books.
2007-02-02 02:28:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://community.nigeria.com/family/tufat/login.php
lol... I googled Nigerian family history, and this page was one of the ones that came up. Here's a whole list of different family trees (real ones).
2007-02-01 17:20:29 · answer #3 · answered by wendy c 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋