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Nigeria’S Cultural Policy And The Needs Of The Performing Arts, Chukwuma Anyanwu
Nigeria’S Cultural Policy And The Needs Of The Performing Arts, Chukwuma Anyanwu
International Review of Humanities Studies
Nigeria is a country reputed for its rich and diverse cultures from the multi-ethnic nationalities that make it up. Indeed, the diversity of traditions and cultures are evidenced in the nation’s more than four hundred and seventy (470) tribes. It is in the bid to ensure that each cultural entity is preserved, projected and promoted, that Nigeria has a cultural policy. The cultural policy is decidedly synonymous with the arts and artists since the arts and artists mainly generate the bulk of what materially, at least, constitutes culture. Of course, culture is derived from material and immaterial products all which …