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Saturday 4 October 2014
Culture as agenda setting
With the appointment of Chief Ferdinand Anikwe
as the new Director of the Centre for Black and
African Arts and Civilisation, (CBAAC), the coast in
now clear for the centre to begin a new era for
the continued promotion, projection and
protection of African cultural values. In a press
briefing last week, Anikwe made it clear that his
appointment would not rob the centre of its
previous strides. He reiterated that the idea of
African cultures and civilization as CBAAC is meant
to project is to always ensure that all peoples of
African descent anywhere they are in the world
should be made to be in touch with their roots,
reminiscing on their cultural values and doing all
they can do preserve their heritage.
He said: “It is globally believed that the
21st century is the century for African
development. Truly, indices from some African
countries point to the fact that gradually and
steadily, Africa is beginning to take the necessary
steps towards growth and development.
Therefore, there are also evidences that the
leadership and governance of most African and
Diaspora countries are becoming more
transformational rather than transactional and it
is in fact within this content that their growth
could be explained,” he said.
Disclosing that deep cultural values can be used
to take Africa to the next level if all the peoples of
Africa can work assiduously for it, he reminded
leaders that time had come to accord due
attention to the sector to ensure speedy growth
both socially, politically, economically and
otherwise. According to Anikwe, “There is no gain-
saying the fact that if Africa and its Diaspora are
to come to the table of humanity on equal terms
with the rest of the human race, she has to move
at an accelerated rate. Beyond that however, she
has to explore some hitherto neglected resources
in her quest for development. One of such
resources is her indigenous or traditional ways of
life known as culture.”
He stated that the total beauty of culture lies in
the fact that it can be used to safeguard
humanity, put an agenda in place and allow
people to live those indices to move on ahead in
life. “Culture involves both tangible and
intangible ways by which man adapts to his
environment in a bid to make the world a better
place than he met it. Though Africa has tried so
many models in her efforts to drive development,
it is clear that her cultures have not been
sufficiently incorporated into her quest for
development.” And so, it is in his avowed interest
to use CBAAC to redraw attention towards total
cultural transformation both locally and
internationally.
This is why come November, the centre, in
collaboration with the University of Port Harcourt,
Rivers State, will organize a conference with the
theme as Culture in the transformation agenda of
Africa and in Diaspora in the new global order.
Scholars from different parts of the globe are
expected to deliver papers on different themes
and sub-themes of the conference. In the words
of Anikwe, “this conference shall have scholars
and practitioners from Nigeria, Africa and the
Diaspora. Institutional representations are also
expected from UNESCO, African Union, various
African cultural institutes responsible for the
promotion of African cultural values, and artists
from both local and elsewhere are meant to
participate.”
With all these in place, the idea is to use culture to
rebuild families, teach the youths what they ought
to know, inculcate discipline in them, among
other issues.
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