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The occasion of birth in Africa is seen as the transition from the spiritual into the physical realm. The ritual marking of the early stages of transition in the life of a person therefore serve to emphasize the process of breaking away from the world of the unborn. The naming ceremony is the first of these and the idea that the unborn come from the ancestors is shown by the fact of the newborn being named after the ancestors (Kamalu, 1998, pp. 35-6).