Support Arts, government, corporate organisations urged

Support Arts, government, corporate organisations urged
By Abdul Semiu Babalola

Governments at all levels in Nigeria have been urged to give necessary support to the promotion of traditional artworks and the culture of the people.

An art collector, Mr Femi Akinsanya, who has been involved in the collection of arts in the last thirty years gave this advise in an interview with Voice of Nigeria.

He told Correspondent Abdul Semiu Babalola that government and corporate organisations need to collaborate to ensure that African culture and tradition does not go into extinction.

The Akinsanya collection includes a large number of African artworks of Yoruba, Igbo, Urhobo, Cross River, Benin and Benue River valley origins now documented in a book titled “Making History- African Collectors and Canon of African Art.”

The book written by an Associate Professor of Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States, Sylvester Ogbechie, is to be formally presented to the public this Thursday in Lagos.

The Associate Professor of Art suggested that African Arts and Culture should be included in educational curriculum, as a way of educating the Youths.

Professor Ogbechie speaks more on incorporating culture into educational curriculum.

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He also said government should enact law that will forbid religious leaders from describing traditional religion, arts and culture as fetish.

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