Tunisia rules man can drop part of name that shows slave roots
Hamden Dali, previously Hamden Atig Dali, can drop ‘atig’ which means ‘liberated by’, opening the door for thousands of other cases
16 October 2020 - 18:05
Tunis — A Tunisian court has allowed an 81-year-old man to remove a word that marked him out as descended from slaves from his name, in the country’s first ruling of its kind, his lawyer said.
Tunisia was one of the first countries to abolish slavery in 1846, but critics say it has not done enough to address racism against Black Tunisians, who make up 10%-15% of the population and are mostly descended from slaves...
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