Uzoma Okwumo sent this amazing photo shoot to 1111″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Bellanaija to honour her only living grandparent, half-Nigerian (Igbo) and Ghanaian Helen Ama Tarigbo.
Read her story and view the album below:
My grandmother is turning 78 years old
next month. Earlier this year, she fell really sick, and once she
recovered, it made us realize that as many memories as we had with her,
we haven’t done anything recently to honor her nor did we have a nice
picture to remember her by. She is after all the only living grandparent
that we have left on this earth. One night as I was sleeping, I woke up
with this vivid vision of a way to honor her. You see, my grandmother
is half Ghanaian and half Nigerian.I figured since she has 4 generations of
her extension existing on this earth, why not show her just how blessed
she has been and just how much we appreciate her for being the rock of
our family. We would dress up in traditional Ghanaian kente clothes and
traditional Nigerian (Igbo) fabric akwete and do a photoshoot which will
be framed and presented to her on her birthday on November 26th. It was
a lot of hard work planning it and finally executing it, but we pulled
it off.Through these pictures, we were able to
capture Herself, One of her Daughters, Her Grandkids, and her Great
Grandkids. We intentionally did not include the husbands and the dads in
the pictures because 1. They’re not too fond of pictures, and 2. We
wanted to keep it to my grandmother and her direct extensions. We
blessed her with a one of a kind, original photo shoot that hasn’t been
done before.Please help us honor our Grandmother
Helen Ama Tarigbo as we pay homage to our Nigerian/Ghanaian roots, and
also recognize our photographer.
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