The responsibility of living towards ancestors in the traditional African community
- Naming children after them
- Pouring libation for them
- Taking care of their graveyards
- Making sacrifices to honour them
- Consulting/communicating to them in times of need
- Inviting/involving them in ceremonies
- Invoking their names during prayers
- Transmitting their wishes/visions
- By holding commemoration ceremonies for them
- Managing their property wisely.
- Building shrines for them.
- Teaching children about them.