Story: Vincent Adedze, Tamale
STAKEHOLDERS in the arts and crafts industry have completed a two-day consultative workshop in Tamale on the development of a database for the sector.
The workshop, which was organised by the Centre for National Culture (CNC) under the Cultural Initiatives Support Programme (CISP), among other objectives, was aimed at equipping the participants with the requisite skills to enable them to support a data-gathering exercise on the arts and crafts industry to help develop the sector on a more sustainable basis.
The participants, who were from the Brong Ahafo, Ashanti and the three northern regions, discussed such issues as community protected areas, the Ghana cultural framework and the need for a database.
The Director of Finance and Administration of the CNC, Mr Michael Attipoe, said lack of funding was a major challenge to executing plans in his outfit.
“I must, however, say that the CISP would go a long way in solving the problem of funding, if only we are able to present our case in a scientific manner,” he added.
He announced that the CNC was collaborating with the management of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) to come out with a programme to telecast how marriages were conducted among the various tribes in Ghana.
“Marriage is the key to holding this nation together and we have to educate our people on all the various forms of marriages we have in this country”, he further stated.
The Programme Co-ordinator of CISP, Mr Kwasi Gyan-Apenteng, said the “dynamics of our nation shows that culture is the bedrock of the country’s development”.
He, however, expressed regret that over the years the sector had been relegated to the background by successive governments.
The Northern Regional Director of the CNC, Mr James Adabugah, stressed the need for the preservation of the positive aspects of “our cultural heritage” to ensure that they were well marketed to the outside world.
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