Monday, December 2, 2013

An African home coming...A visit to the land of our fathers...

One of our member families, the Ogunbis, 
went on a trip back home to Nigeria 
for a family wedding event in Abuja. 


They wanted to share pictures of their 
adventures and experiences .

 Experiences that were particularly poignant 
in that they invited back to Nigeria
 with them a couple of African American families who had never been
 to Nigeria before. 


They took them to many places including
 even visiting our Chairman of the board 
in his Abeokuta residence, who opened up his home for the entourage to stay...
They experienced a full traditional yoruba wedding, complete with aso ebi!



All our visitors were given yoruba names. 
They enjoyed it so much that they plan to go back. 
One of the families
 insists that they are moving back to Nigeria...




They visited Olumo Rock...
They made it to Badagry to visit the 
Baale of Badagry



 and even visited the point of no return, 
where the slaves were last held,
 before being shipped off to a life of slavery 
and a new foreign world...
 This was reportedly very emotional 
for our visitors...




The visitors and our members participated
 in a health fare at the 
ministry of finance in Abuja as well!

A very busy and full visit for our member family and our African American friends.

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  2. Excellent photos - thanks for sharing. Congratulations to the Ogunbis on a successful "pilgrimage", and thanks to Prof. Ayanwale for the hospitality. Y'all make us proud..

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