"Bantu nomenclature' should not only feature on the academic menus of anthropologists, sociologists, sociolinguists, psychologists or the so-called African Studies scholars, as history reveals, but should also be, and doubtless it is, but for the infancy in which African philosophy finds itself, of interest to philosophers in general, and to philosophers of language in particular. The urgency of such endeavours is justified by the live and burning issues in contemporary philosophy of language. Needless to say that the academic arena is replete with anthropological, sociological and even linguistical literature on Bantu cultures in general, and Bantu nomenclature in particular in so far as they serve the anthropological, sociological or the linguistical purposes, but, lamentably, no comparable philosophical literature has so far been realised. Hence the attempt to open a preliminary, but by no means exhaustive, philosophical perspective towards Bantu nomenclature in the hope of provoking a philosophical debate on issues and problems raised by contemporary philosophers of language, particularly those relating to names and naming, and their implications when considered with Bantu proper names within the purview.