Review

Cultural diplomacy in Nigeria through dance

Don Saa-Aondo Iorngurum and Richard Tsevende

¹Department of Theatre Arts, Benue State University, Makurdi

²Benue State Council for Arts and Culture, Makurdi.

Accepted 18 January, 2023

Dances are generally taken as cultural material for entertainment with no other values. In this paper, the writers have carefully examined a number of other ways Nigerian dances have been employed in the contemporary times. The paper has argued that Nigerian dances can be used for much more than entertainment and concluded that already, Nigerian dances have been used successfully for cultural diplomacy in a number of nations and as such this should be upheld.