We must get street and road names right

Homa Bay Governor Gladys Wanga recently named a street after herself. [Courtesy, Meta]

At the start of my first year at Maseno University, my course mate Bill Okaka looked bemused on the day we began our ‘Logic and Rational Thought’ class.

What surprised him most, and indeed all of us, was the lecturer’s philosophical take on names. “For now, you can call me Crispinus Iteyo,” the lecturer said. The phrase ‘for now’ got us thinking. As each of us stood to say our names and utter our expectations for the course, Prof Iteyo dropped another bombshell: What’s in a name? He had thrown us headfirst into the world of philosophy.