Day: July 26, 2026

At a naming ceremony in many Nigerian homes, the elders gather with honey, salt, kola nut, alligator pepper and sugar cane, sometimes with palm oil and water, and touch each one briefly to the baby’s lips while speaking a prayer over the child. May your life be as sweet as this honey. May you add flavour wherever you go, like this salt. May you endure bitterness without losing your character, like this pepper.

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