Why I Changed My Name

Ibukun
3 min readAug 25, 2020

Oluwabunmi is the name my parents gave me.

It’s a Yoruba name that means, God’s gift.

At school, my teachers shortened my name to Bunmi even though I preferred the name Olu.

That is when the teasing started. The kids called me bum licker. They taunted me as I sat at the lunch table, all by myself.

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Ibukun

SEO by day and freelance writer by night. Poetry and fiction writer at https://ibs-writes.com/blog/