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#RememberTheAncestors: ADACI Nigeria commemorates ancestors, distributes palliative to community

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As the saying thus, "the river that forgets it's source, plans to extinct",  ADACI celebrates its source.  For almost three decades, the African Diaspora Ancestral Commemoration Institute  (ADACI) ,  has been recognizing it's source by celebrating the millions of men, women and children who perished during the trans-Atlantic slave trade (“the Maafa”), and those who survived.  The non-profit institute chapter in Nigeria commemorated the ancestors by the sharing palliative to the residents of Meran community area in Lagos State Nigeria to relief them during this unprecedented time. The sitting King, HRM Oba Samuel Awoyemi Oroja Akarakiri II, Onimeran of Meran kingdom in his appreciation speech thanked Adaci team for the kind gesture shown to the people of his community. He also said that his appreciation will go beyond verbal because it is a great task for any group that makes it a duty to remember the poor in this critical time. According to him, the pandemic has cause