Cultural Policy In Nigeria

A policy is the declared document of objectives that a governing body seek to achieve and preserve in the interest of national community. And, policy-makers have over time, in countries across the world, come to an understanding of the importance of policy making. And it can be said that among such policies of a country, one of the most important of them all is the Cultural Policy. The Cultural Policy is one that brings about an understanding of communal identity and the expressing of culture, and how this can be essential to the development of one’s country. It can be extensive and expensive to establish and implement a cultural policy as it requires data collecting, as well as, takes into consideration the opinions and needs of the people

The Nigerian cultural policy goes through a chronological transition of the history of their culture and nature of their country. The policy is divided into transitional sections; giving detailed information from before the colonial conquest, to the section of the traditional organization of their culture, then the Nigerian culture under colonial rule, current administration and financing of culture, their art agencies and cultural organization, the transmission of culture, to finally the future of the Nigerian culture. And, throughout reading you will have a well-established understanding of where Nigeria is coming from to what they are now and what they want to do to develop the arts and culture of their

The people are the first and most important element of what makes a country a country and without the people you cannot have a culture to be more specific. And, both countries’ policy lack the inclusion of the people in its development. The policies felt more highly politically opinionated. The policy had either what they wanted to fulfill or assumed what the people needed as a government, compared to doing research amongst the people in identifying what were the needs of the country to achieve its required cultural standard and having a balance in the development of a national cultural policy.

And let’s be clear that there is no perfect cultural policy and all policy will have their issues and some may be similar to others, and may not be able to fulfill everyone’s needs based on the countries’ accessibility to resources and funding or maybe the nature of the country’s culture.

However, there are some commendable areas in both policies, as well as it is applaudable, their interest in pursuing a cultural policy to assist in the development of their countries. And, we look forward to the future revision of these cultural policies to see if these issues identified were address, and if there has been improvement in not only the cultural policy, but in the development of their culture entirely especially through the implementation of their cultural