The Centre for Black African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC), on Monday, trained youths on bead making, hair weaving and braiding.
This training took place at the Agency’s Workshop entitled: Deploying Arts and Culture as Tools for Eradicating Poverty amongst black and African people through bead making, hair weaving and braiding, held at the Testimony Ground, Lagos.
The Participating Youths were drawn from different secondary schools, unemployed undergraduates and willing adults who later went home with the necessary machinery/ tools to further on their training.
While explaining the rationale behind the event, The Director-General, Hon. Olubunmi Amao said the programme was billed to fulfill the agency’s mandate of promoting, propagating and preserving African culture in totality.
Amao explained that this conviction encouraged the training of the youth on the aforementioned craft with the sole aim of empowering the participants.
The Former Commissioner added that this would encourage creativity and facilitate cultural endeavours, deploying them to promote unity peace, diplomacy and national development.
She maintained that Bead making, fashion and hair weaving provided very good means of raising income of rural women and youths in Nigeria; thereby, reducing poverty amongst its practitioners.
The DG noted that history and heritage of such cultures are not just being conserved but also recreated as new forms of expression.
“As you are aware, the promotion, propagation and preservation of African culture in totality is our core mandate at CBAAC.
“In fulfilling this mandate, the positioning of the varied elements of our culture to solve the social and economic challenges of African people occupies a special place in the minds of the management of the Centre.
“It is this conviction that had informed our decision to organize this workshop to train our youth on the craft with the sole aim of empowering the participants.
“In doing this, we also encouraged creativity and facilitate cultural endeavours with the sole aim of deploying them to promote unity peace, diplomacy and national development.
“Bead making, fashion and hair weaving have all provided very good means of raising income of rural women and youths in Nigeria; thereby, reducing poverty amongst its practitioners.
“By doing this, history and heritage of such cultures are not just being conserved but also recreated as new forms of expression.” She stated.
