Australian High Commissioner ‘In Trouble’ For Naming His Dog “Kofi”.

In Ghana, it is not common to hear people own pets and name them after actual human bearing identities like calling a cat or dog names that humans also bear.

The Australian High Commissioner, HE Mr Andrew Barnes has detailed how people keep questioning him about how his favourite pet, a dog, came by the name “Kofi”.

Explaining to his curious followers on social media, the senior diplomat who is in charge of the diplomatic mission between Ghana and Australia made it clear that the dog was passed on to him and the first owner named it “Kofi” because it was received on a Friday.

The commissioner made all these revelations known in one of his Facebook posts a few hours ago.

He wrote;

“Ghana, I need your advice about the name of my best friend and beloved dog here, Kofi. Some of my followers have expressed concern about his name. They’ve said culturally, dogs shouldn’t have a name like that. But others among you have said it’s OK. In Australia we love our dogs and call them all different names, including human ones. But I want to do the right thing here.

What do you think? Should I change his name?

For background, I inherited him with the name Kofi. My Ghanaian colleagues here at the High Commission tell he was brought in as an orphaned puppy on a Friday. That’s how Kofi got his name”.

What do you make of this?