LASU students union leader urges youths to project indigenous culture

Mr Kappo Samuel, President, Students Union, Lagos State University (LASU), on Tuesday urged Nigerian students to project their indigenous culture and heritage through their dressing, communication and social life.

Samuel made the assertion in an interview with our reporter during the LASU Students Union Week Cultural Festival to showcase Nigeria’s indigenous culture.

Samuel said it was unfortunate that Nigerian culture was vanishing as a result of the bombardment of foreign culture on African nations.

“Most youths no longer feel comfortable wearing our local attires, speak our language or even eat our foods because of too much exposure to foreign culture and this is doing us more harm than good,’’ he said.

According to him, the programme is organised to promote the African culture and encourage contemporary youths and Nigerian people who had shifted their interest from African culture to foreign lifestyle to have a rethink.

The union leader noted that the need for Nigerian students to display their culture could not be overemphasised because indigenous culture was our heritage and identity.

“It is no longer a perception but a reality that the youths of today and Nigerian people had shifted from their culture and that is why we organised the event to enlighten them on the implications of such ideology.

“We are using the medium to educate Nigerians on the need to project our culture and that is why even me, as the LASU students union president is projecting dressing with a native attire and a cap,’’ he said.

Contributing, a student, Moyo Adedare, lauded the union for the initiative, saying that she had benefitted immensely from the event.

Adedare said the programme would help to reshape the perception and character of many students who participated and that it would in turn promote the African culture.

Our correspondent reports that the event featured the display of several aspects of the nation’s indigenous culture such as attires, dance, drama, songs and games in Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Egun, Efik and Idoma among others.