Afunwa

/Áfụ́-Nwá/

Gender: m

Short form of the expression "Afu-nwa-echeta-nna": When we see the child, we are reminded of the father.

*An expression that points to how children are an extension of their parents. A story went that in the early days of the missionaries in Igbo country, an Igbo man once quipped at a catholic priest, "if you want to have everlasting life", he said, "procreate".