CHARLOTTE — From the time Princely Umanmielen was born, he's known who he was—the grandson of a chief; his dad gave him a name that made sure he'd remember.

"My dad wants to keep it alive, so he named all his kids Prince something," Umanmielen first shared back in April after the Panthers drafted the pass-rusher out of Ole Miss.

"I'm Princely, little brother is Princewill, and then the last one is Princeton…my parents still get confused," he laughed. "Call for one and everybody comes."

But it's a small price to pay for the brothers never to forget their lineage.

Umanmielen was born in Lagos, Nigeria, a part of the Benin people from the nearby Edo tribe. The Edo tribe has had a presence in Nigeria for centuries and boasts over 10,000,000 descendants to date. Before Nigeria was coloniz

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