It was a really busy day in Lengthy Island’s Hempstead Lake State Park on Saturday, July eighth.
Nigerians in America representing the Edo Group of New York celebrated themselves within the beautiful park, which was the venue for quite a lot of teams together with: African People internet hosting birthday events, Hondurans, Southeast Asians, and Arab households having fun with meals and video games.
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The Edo Group hosted their annual picnic with households based mostly in New York. Yearly, the group brings do-it-yourself Nigerian dishes like jollof, iyan, dodo, roasted corn, assorted meats, and stew. With their president, Efe Okuns, and secretary, Wahab Bello-Osagie, members meet month-to-month and speak weekly to additional their mission to maintain the Benin group functioning and rising. Members additionally rejoice college students who’ve graduated from elementary, center, excessive faculties and school with a monetary present.
“We come collectively yearly to rejoice our household, and our pals, and our tradition. We eat meals collectively, we snigger,” Henry Obadiaru, co-founder of the Edo Group and one in all its longest serving members, informed the Amsterdam Information. “We speak about politics and household, and easy methods to strengthen our group collectively. And we encourage our youth as we remind ourselves that we’re sturdy, proud Nigerians dwelling in America.”
