LAGOS (Sundiata Post)– Poverty, bad governance and insufficient institutional assistance are weakening the conservation of Nigeria’s cultural archives.
Media business owner and reporter, Chude Jideonwo made the observation throughout a panel session at the Readers ‘Corner of the CANEX WKND 2026 on Thursday at the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and Creative Arts, Lagos.
CANEX WKND 2026, has the style “One People, United in Culture, Creating for the World”.
The Creative Africa Nexus program (CANEX) is an effort of Afreximbank to support the advancement of Africa’s Creative and Cultural Industries.
It intends to deal with a few of the difficulties dealt with by the innovative economy.
This is through the arrangement of access to fund, capability structure, trade, financial investment and export promo, access to brand-new market chances, digital options, and policy advocacy to fast-track the scaling of Africa’s imaginative sectors within the international economy.
Jideonwo stated financial difficulty and insufficient federal government financing frequently required people and organizations to prioritise instant survival over the conservation of historic products.
He stated how his news article, carefully protected from the age of 15, were disposed of after being sold from his household home in Ikorodu, Lagos.
He stated the loss was especially unpleasant since he had actually prepared to digitise the products to maintain his journalistic contributions and historic records.
According to him, the occurrence showed a wider difficulty in Nigeria, where important historic products were typically disposed of since their significance was not acknowledged.
Jideonwo stated hardship might make archival conservation tough, pointing out circumstances where tv stations recycled taping tapes since they did not have funds to acquire brand-new ones.
He described that such choices, although driven by financial truths, typically led to the long-term loss of important historic products.
The reporter likewise criticised the minimal attention offered to cultural conservation by succeeding federal governments, keeping in mind that digitising Nigeria’s cumulative memory was hardly ever prioritised.
He required more powerful institutional partnership and debt consolidation of resources amongst cultural organisations to enhance archival conservation.
Jideonwo pointed out the functions of people in maintaining cultural organizations such as the National Theatre and Freedom Park, Lagos, worrying the significance of dedicated clients in securing nationwide heritage.
He stated rich people with a strong dedication to culture might contribute substantially to protecting Nigeria’s history, especially where federal government assistance stayed insufficient.
Jideonwo advised stakeholders to sustain discussions and establish useful steps to deal with the difficulties facing cultural conservation in Nigeria.
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