Where did he get that name? I think he was raised by his mom and took her last name, but I’ve never heard of the first name Ashoka. Some people will invent new names where none existed before. I sense that he has am overpowering need to play ‘savior’ or hero. This may explain Ashoka’s determination to head into Liberia just when Ebola began taking scores of lives in that area. This is the kind of inner need that drives a free American Citizen to go strolling about in Iran or North Korea. If Ashoka lives through this, he will return to Liberia, where he feels ‘heroic’.
Ashoka is an Indian name.
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See my post for info about this bizarre person.
Emperor “Ashoka”
Last major emperor in the Mauryan dynasty of India. His vigorous patronage of Buddhism during his reign (c. 265–238 bce; also given as c. 273–232 bce) furthered the expansion of that religion throughout India and subsequently to China..
Ashoka was an Indian raja. There is also the famous song Ashokan Farewell (the theme of Ken Burns’ The Civil War) and in fact Ashokan is a famous music resort in the north east.