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Name Image Location Criteria Year Description; Sukur Cultural Landscape: Adamawa. Cultural (iii) (v) (vi) 1999 The Sukur Cultural Landscape, with the Palace of the Hidi (Chief) on a hill dominating the villages below, the terraced fields and their sacred symbols, and the extensive remains of a former flourishing iron industry, is a remarkably intact physical expression of a society and its ...
The tourism industry is regulated by the Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation (Nigeria). [12] In an attempt to raise the profile of the country's tourism sector, a beauty pageant , the Miss Tourism Nigeria Pageant, was created in 2004. [ 13 ]
Mak yong is a traditional form of dance-drama from northern Malaysia, particularly the state of Kelantan. Dondang Sayang: 2018 01410: Dondang Sayang is a traditional form of entertainment where singers exchange extemporaneous Malay poetry, in a lighthearted and sometimes humorous style. Silat: 2019 01504: Silat is a class of martial arts ...
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The earth spirit, Ana, is 'Odinana', as is the sacred role of yam in the Igbo world, the right of inheritance, and the place of the elder. 'Odinana', as the immutable customary rites and traditions of the Igbo world, is enduring and cuts across indigenous Igbo people, while 'Omenana' is rather relative from one section of the Igbo to the other ...
Tourism in Lagos State was first fashioned in 1995 by the Military Administration; ever since then, tourism sites have received thousands of visitors. In order to increase the viability of tourism, arts and culture in the state, the previous state governor Akinwunmi Ambode in 2015 renamed the tourism ministry responsibilities to the Ministry of ...
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism states that its vision (and mission) is: [2] To promote the diverse cultural heritage of Rivers’ people and to identify and develop the tourism potentials of the State as a means of job creation, wealth generation as well inculcating pride and dignity in our local art work and cultural values.
The government has historically made little distinction between "Malay culture" and "Malaysian culture". [8] The Malays, who account for over half the Malaysian population, [1] play a dominant role politically and are included in a grouping identified as bumiputra. Their native language, Bahasa Malaysia, is the national language of the country. [9]