The Director of Research and Publications, Center for Black African Arts and Civilisation (CBAAC), Dr. Adesegun Dosumu, has commended Christ College (The Royal Acres), Ikeja, for teaching African traditional culture, noting that to preserve the continent’s heritage, schools must be deliberate about imparting it to children at a tender age. He said the best way to sustain African cultural and traditional values is to inculcate them in the school curriculum.

Speaking as the special guest at the college’s fifth yearly Royal Celebration of Musical Arts and Culture in Ikeja, Dosumu said, “if we want our culture not to go into extinction, schools must be deliberate and intentional in bringing the children from tender age to know what our culture is and its positive sides and they must be taught on the essence of acting what they learned.”

He added: “For us to sustain our cultural values as a people, schools must begin to create avenues and programmes so that things that are read by pupils and students are put into practice. Learning is through practice and it is good that schools should begin to give primacy to the teaching of our culture, just as it is witnessed here today.”

Similarly, the Chairman of the school, Pastor Samuel Olatunji, as well as the Principal, Mr. Gbenga Abayomi, noted that Christ College has continued to emphasise on the positive sides of African culture in its curriculum over the years.

Parents, who attended the event, were excited at the display of different traditional attire, food and traditional music and commended the school management for what they described as excellent partnership.