PLANNED FOR IMPLEMENTATION
THEME: GLOBALIZATION AND ITS EFFECTS:
CONFERENCE ON GLOBALIZATION – CONCEPT PAPER
CHARTING A TRUE COURSE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BLACK RACECONVENERS:
Centre for Black Culture & International Understanding, Nigeria, in collaboration with institutions with similar objectives.
PROPOSED PARTNERS/SPONSORS:
UN (Proposed) Institute for African Culture & International Understanding, Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; Governments of Foreign Nations; African Development Bank; (Proposed) Read more...
PICTURES FROM THE CELEBRATION OF CHIEF DR. (MRS.) NIKE OKUNDAYE @ 72
The CBCIU express its utmost gratitude to you for your warm presence at the just concluded 55 Years of Exhibiting and Promoting Traditional and Contemporary African Art: Celebrating Chief Dr. (Mrs.) Nike Okundaye.Read more...
CBCIU FELICITATES WITH DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR PETER AKINSOLA OKEBUKOLA OFR ON THE CONFERMENT OF EMERITUS PROFESSOR
On behalf of the Board of Trustees, Management and Staff of Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding, I rejoice with the Distinguished Professor Peter Akinsola Okebukola OFR on the conferment of Emeritus Professor on him on the combined authority of Senate and Governing Council of Lagos State University on March 24, 2022. The icing of the cake is that you made history as the first Professor to be elevated to the highly coveted rank of Emeritus Professor in the history of Lagos State University. This honour is, no doubt, a recognition of your exemplary leadership, outstanding service to humanity and stella record of achievements in computers in education and e-learning, co-operative learning, metacognitive strategies in science education, environmental education, and eco-cultural influences on the learning of science concepts.Read more...
CENTRE FOR BLACK CULTURE AND INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING CALLS FOR THE RETURN AND REPATRIATION OF NIGERIA'S CULTURAL OBJECTS
In line with its mandate, the Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding, a UNESCO Category II Institute based in Osogbo, Osun State has called for the Return and Repatriation of Nigeria's Cultural Objects. In the last few months, the subject of African artefacts and their return to the continent where they originally belonged has continued to generate several reactions across the world. In light of the recent return of some artefacts from Germany to Edo State, Nigeria recently, the debates have been focused more than ever before in recent times on not only the return of these artefacts but also restitution on them. Read more...
THE FUTURE OF HERITAGE SITES AND TOURISM INDUSTRY IN THE POST-COVID AGE
At its first programme to commence the year 2022, the Research, Publications and Programmes Unit had the pleasure of welcoming Engineer Abimbola Daniyan, immediate Past Chairman, Osun Tourism Board and the State of Osun Hotels and other Tourism Industry Licensing Authority, to deliver the January edition of the CBCIU Monthly Seminar Series. Daniyan, an accomplished administrator, who was ably represented by veteran journalist, Prince Wale Olayemi, used the opportunity presented by the seminar to explain the use of heritage and heritage sites and festivals as key sources and resources for tourism development and promotion in Osun State and Nigeria as a whole. Read more...
CBCIU HOLDS THE MAIDEN EDITION OF 2022 DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
As part of its activities ushering in the New Year, the Centre organised its first Distinguished Lecture Series entitled: Black Lives Matter: Interrogating Black Culture and Racism in Global Context. Delivered by a distinguished professor of history, Olutayo Adesina, the lecture provided a platform to examine and interrogate a very fundamental issue that continues to affect people of colour around the world, and most importantly in the United States of America. Read more...
CBCIU MARKS BLACK HISTORY MONTH
In commemoration of the 2022 edition of the annual Black History Month,and as part of its Monthly Seminar Series, the Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding, Osogbo, hosted guests to a lecture titled 'Movement against Second Slavery: Fela Kuti and the Demystification of Neocolonialism.' The lecture delivered by Dr. Temitope Fagunwa of Department of History and International Studies,Osun State University, Osogbo, on Tuesday, 15 February, 2022,at the Fela Kuti Hall of the Centre, examined the role of the late Afrobeat music artist and Pan-Africanist, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti in the discourse on neocolonialism in Africa. Read more...
TRAVELLING EXHIBITION
THEME: 50 YEARS OF OSOGBO SCHOOL OF ARTS: A CELEBRATION
CONCEPT PAPER PROMOTING AFRICAN ARTS & CULTURE
TRAVELLING EXHIBITION THEMED: ‘50 YEARS OF OSOGBO SCHOOL OF ARTS: A CELEBRATION’; CBCIU is getting set to host the exhibitions at the following venues, subject to the final ratification of CBCIU’s requests for partnerships/collaboration extended to organizations of the countries highlighted in this compilation. The archive of a cultural icon, Prof. Ulli & Georgina Beier forms the nucleus of CBCIU Read more...
WHEN OSHOGBO ARTIST DAZZLED IN ABUJA
Theme :When Oshogbo Artist Dazzled in AbujaFebruary 12, 2017 Akintayo Abodunrin Arts and Culture
One of the displayed art work
The '50 Years of Osogbo Art' exhibition, held at Thought Pyramid Art
Centre, was a successful show that further reinforced the talents of
the artists
IT was an assemblage of master artists with refreshing unique styles
at the Abuja leg of the 50th anniversary of the Osogbo Artists
Movement, held from January 24 to 29.
Having begun in the ancient cultural city on January 17 with an
exhibition and launch of the Centre for Black Culture and
International Understanding's (CBCIU) journal and a DVD of Orisa
Dances, the celebration train moved to the FCT and stopped at Thought
Pyramid Art Centre, where hundreds of art aficionados and heads of
parastatals, under the Federal Ministry of Culture, converged to view
the artworks on display.
RELIGIOUS IDENTITY AND INTER-FAITH RELATIONS IN SOUTH-WEST NIGERIA, CBCIU OSOGBO
Theme: RELIGIOUS IDENTITY AND INTER-FAITH RELATIONS IN SOUTH-WEST NIGERIA, CBCIU OSOGBOOne of the cardinal objectives of CBCIU is to “give greater recognition to cultural diversity and to intellectual dialogue including its interreligious component in order to reinforce social cohesion in Nigeria’s pluralistic society and beyond.�? South-west Nigeria has well-established Muslim and Christian communities as well as traditional religious culture which continues to be of international interest. Despite this religious diversity, and unlike other parts of the country, the Yoruba-speaking communities of Nigeria have experienced only low levels of religious conflict.
Presentation of Orisa Dance of Yoruba Land
Theme: Globalization and its effects: Charting a course for the true development of the Black race.The Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding (CBCIU) is aware of the level of extinction of many aspects of our culture especially the traditional religion.Our Intangible Cultural Heritage is fast disappearing (going into extinction ) and we must take a decisive approach and action to revive out culture.
Ulli Beier Celebration
We are celebrating Ulli Beier, who died on 3rd March, 2010 on Saturday, 2nd July, 2011.Ulli Beier (aka Sangodare Akanji Arabagbalu, aka Obotunde Ijimere) hardly needs an introduction, least of all as a Yoruba man who just happened to have been born white in far away Germany in 1922.
Launch of CBCIU in the United States
It is to be noted that the Consultants from Recently in far away United States, the Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding, Osogbo, (CBCIU) operating under the auspices of UNESCO launched its arm in the United States in line with CBCIU’s mandate which encourages inter-religious and cultural dialogues, peace, international understanding as well as the promotion and preservation of the rich cultural heritage of the black race.
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