You would normally expect the bearer of a typical West African name like Kwame Kwei-Armah to be Ghanaian. Apparently, this intelligent playwright and actor, who has been on my interview list for so long, is not Ghanaian. He is presently involved in the bicentenary celebrations of the abolition of slavery in Britain. I have always been keen on finding out what motivated him to adopt a Ghanaian name. His website says he embarked on a search into his roots and arrived at a total identity change. Kwame is not alone. Trinidadian born Stockley Carmichael has become Kwame Ture, and boxing legend Mohammed Ali, insisted his former identity-Carcius Clay-was a slave name.