In Africa, centuries of religious hostility between people of Christendom and adherents of other foreign and also ethnic religions prompted parents to give their children two names that provided a measure of protection, a custom that persists today.
एक युवा लड़का एक गिरजे के सदस्य या अन्य धर्म के माननेवाले के तौर पर इनमें से केवल एक नाम का इस्तेमाल करते हुए अपने - आप को प्रस्तुत कर सकता है ।