Nigeria: Cultural Policy And National Development

24 September 2007
opinion

Lagos — CULTURE is the complex of distinctive attainments, beliefs, traditions and other ways of life constituting the background of a racial, religious or social group. An objective examination of Nigerian culture shows that it has the resilience to adapt to changing circumstances.

Our culture can offer genuine and lasting solutions to our pressing problems and provide us with respect, sense of purpose, direction, fulfillment and pride which only our indigenous system can bring about. Culture has to be dynamic to cope with phenomenal transformations in the economic, political and social environment of the modern world. It cannot therefore be static.

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