You’re right
but taking the father’s and mother’s name and combining it and adding a made up prefix to the beginning or suffix at the end of it is not an African naming ritual.
Not the suffixes because we are starting with a base language of English... so we have to be creative with that limited gutter language.
However we are the creative name makers... cac names are as bland and basic as their dna. Cacs name after occupation or location and evolve from there....
Our naming is spiritual, religious, based on order of birth, combination of tribes.. signs from nature and other things...
We came up with random suffixes to add to English names based on the various cultures that influenced us like The French.
We had strong naming traditions before and during slavery and after... until societal pressure. Then we lost it... and regained in the 1970s, however by then we didnt know out own rules. For example Sambo is a West African name, but because Cacs started dissing us with it we made it bad.
Also..... some of the worse and bad names started during slavery... sometimes children would have great names and then would die or be sold away so to trick the spirits the parents sometimes would give a name they heard the slave master say or some negative sounding word.
Or some slaves would be named after classical literature as a joke then those names would be finessed and passed down to black children.
Long story short it's not without reason.
Named one of my twins after an author and people are like 
