Our Family Journey to Nigeria, West Africa

March 23, 2009: R.I.P. Papa Oguara (1909-2009) (2:42, 2:45-2:52, 6:10); our Beloved Grandfather, Father, Brother, Uncle. We will miss seeing you on our next journey to Nigeria.

Slideshow of our last trip to Nigeria to visit family in December 2004. The music featured in this video is by my husband, Amadanyo, who hails from Nembe, Nigeria. Nembe is located in the Niger River Delta Region in Southern Nigeria, a breathtakenly, amazingly beautiful part of our Earth, that's been sadly desecrated by the oil industry. People live in squalor, with no benefit from the (un)natural resource being siphoned away by Big Foreign Oil, and Nigeria's government continues to look the other way. Despite this, the people of this region are surviving and staying strong.

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[sdigba]

Nice video beautiful family. My parents r family friends to ur husbands sister christy pictured with you in Lagos I currently reside in Scotland. She did mention u guys and it's good that u enjoyed ur self in Nig. If u need to refer to me when u speak to her, my late dad is a very close friend of her late husband and she still very close to my mum. I go home regularly and I have never regretted it. Home is home no matter what. Cheers

[tgirl71]

@sdigba : Wow, what a small world! I am glad you enjoyed the video. Take care, Tana

[14ife]

man i can't wait till wen i go to nigeria again!!!!

I miss home!!

[tgirl71]

I miss it too - don't know when we can go back at this point. Miss my family very much over there.

[dpawlmusic]

I love this!

[aitan844]

@zweeterion good job you dealt with that serial mentally retarded african hater noir ameircan he needs a good slap down now and again , but his neurosis runs deep no help for him at all.

[arinze1986]

what a wonderful family. 9ice video

[Beesahili]

@MichaelPAUSA,I'm not a Nigerian.I'm black! I have visited Nigeria a couple of times&it is cool.U've got the wrong impression!Nobody wants to kidnap U b'cos U are white!Those kidnapped are those who work in foreign oil companies there!I would get in problems if I got involve with Crooks as in any country!For the rest,it is really cool in Nigeria.People I met knew I was foreign b'cos I had an accent &nobody cared!I am afraid to enter a nightclub in any US SouthernStates than a getto inNigerian!

[MichaelPAUSA]

Beautiful video. My faince was Nigerian and a wonderful woman. I always wanted to go visit her country, family and culture but its not safe for White Americans. Too much goverment instability, crime, kid nappings, ect. The West hasn't painted Nigeria in a bad light .. its the corruption in Nigeria politics that has leaked out to some of its people and culture in the news that has brought grief to Nigerians. I love the people and its culture .. the simple hard working people. Not the scammers.

[EgbesuJuju2010]

Interesting combination Nigerian and American Indian. Peace my brother, from Rivers man. Beautiful family!!!

[zweeterion]

You do have the most beautiful family i have seen.God bless you as you show Nigeria isn't all about fraud and all negatives as the media would have everyone believe.It is also filled with good natured hard working people.