At the simply concluded African Drum Festival, Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka spoke in depth in regards to the cultural heritage in Nigeria and throughout Africa and how our strategy to tradition, particularly the totally different specific parts like drumming must be totally different.
The pageant which was proudly sponsored by MTN, noticed the extremely revered mental headline the convention and Symposium the place he mentioned, “there is nowhere that you don’t have drums in Africa. If we are to revive our ideals and ideas as a continent, we must start with a culture, like drumming, that cuts across”.
The third version of the Africa Drum pageant, which was tagged, ‘Drumming for Advancement’, noticed drum troupes from about 33 states in Nigeria as nicely as troupes from over 20 different African international locations and the Caribbean carry out on the June 12 Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta.
In attendance on the three day occasion, supported by MTN, had been the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed; Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka and royal fathers; Alake and Paramount Ruler of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo; the Alafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III; Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi; Obong of Calabar, Etubom Ekpo; Akarigbo of Remo land, Oba Babatunde Ajayi and many others.
The cultural occasion additionally had in attendance, Nollywood stars like Tunde Kelani, Kareem Adepoju (Baba Wande), Kunle Afolayan, Olu Jacobs, Richard Agbor, Wole Sodimu, Wale Dada, Omotunde Adebowale David as nicely as the Marketing & Strategy: Sponsorship & Promotions Manager MTN Nigeria, Njide Ken-Odogwu, Events and Sponsorship Manager, MTN Nigeria, Okundola Bamgboye and the Senior Manager, Go-to-Market manufacturers, MTN Nigeria, Chinyelu Onochie.
The pageant was sponsored by Nigeria’s main supplier of communications companies and widest reaching community, MTN, identified for supporting a big selection of segments within the inventive trade.