Gallery: Rachel Dolezal Changed Her Name To Nkechi Diallo, Which Means 'Gift From God' In A West African Language

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Rachel Dolezal Changed Her Name To Nkechi Diallo, Which Means 'Gift From God' In A West African Language
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Haley Henschel
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Former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal told The Guardian last month that she still identifies as black, even though her parents "outed" her as white back in June 2015.

The Daily Mail has now uncovered the 39-year-old's attempt to assert her "blackness" even further: by changing her name to one of West African origins.

According to documents obtained by the Mail, Dolezal's legal name is now Nkechi Amare Diallo. She changed it in a Washington court last October.

"Nkechi" is short for Nkechinyere, which means "gift from God" or "what God has given" in the Nigerian language of Igbo.

"Diallo," her new last name, means "bold" in the language of the Fula people of West Africa.

Though Dolezal / Diallo seems to think that her new name might legitimize her "black" identity, Twitter is absolutely roasting her:

About Haley Henschel

Haley is a writer, editor, and illustrator from Wisconsin, so please don't serve her an Old Fashioned unless it contains brandy. Outside of work, you'll find her aquascaping, getting bossed around by her bird, or planning another trip to Australia. She currently lives in Chicago, where she's having a hard time adjusting to the whole "no ketchup on hot dogs" thing. Feel free to send your pizza recs/Kardashian konspiracies her way. Currently reading: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion.

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