The United States Mission in Nigeria on Monday announced the launch of the 2022 Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) project to train Nigerian museum professionals in wood conservation, documentation, and storage. The Mission in a statement said that the Yale University Art Gallery has been awarded the AFCP grant to implement the project titled “Sustaining a Partnership in Wood Conservation between the National Museum, Lagos and the Yale University Art Gallery.”
The need for the exemplary display of patriotic fervour over and above personal sentiments and familial cronyism has been elevated to the front burners of national discourse in the conversation around the belated repatriation of artefacts looted from their ancestral homesteads in Old Benin Kingdom during the dark period of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and
The U.S. government is committed to strengthening the cultural ties between it and Nigeria through music, arts, film, cultural heritage, professional and educational exchanges.
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