THE VALUES OF ART AND CULTURE; THEIR CHALLENGES TO THE NIGERIAN SOCIETY

Abstract

Culture has to do within the elements that pinpoint a specific people way of life. Embedded in culture as a subdivision, is arts. And arts consists of many creative efforts and discipline. This shows that arts and culture are related. It is on the basis of this relationship that this study is based about the values of arts and culture in Nigeria. One of the objectives of the study is to examine the values of arts and culture. Another objective is to also look into the aspects of negligence of arts and culture. Also, the study aims at examining the need for the maintenance of culture and look into. The influence of Western education on our society. Finally, the study is purposed to reveal how arts and culture constitute the ethos of a society. The method of the study is descriptive in nature and the theoretical frame work is also interrelated in compassion other researchers idea but with some differences or uniqueness in giving ideas of solution to the aspect of negligence and bringing about maintenance of culture. The study also finds out that the federal government has already started making drastic moves about the issue’s pertaining to arts and culture and the negligence in our society and government making laws governing arts and culture and our social artifacts in the society. Presently, the Government has brought back some of the artifacts looted during the 1897 expedition and also demanding that some of the artifacts should be brought back, on this note some devout end dedicated Nigerians who are making efforts to pass more information to the society by educating the society through the efforts of media power.