Today I am invited to the first life naming ceremony of one of my grandnieces. Although Sweden is a rather secularized country most still choose to christen their children in religious ceremonies.
As the darned atheist I am, I was therefore very happy to receive an invitation to a non-religious naming ceremony for the first time.
The first thing I thought of when the invitation arrived was this mighty memory from my childhood. The clip comes from the television series "Roots", based on the novel by Alex Haley, and shows us the naming of the main character Kunta Kinte by his father Omoro. Roots was huge in Sweden in the early 1980´s.
