Minister of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy, Hannatu Musawa, has hailed Nigeria’s music industry for uniting the nation. Mrs. Hannatu Musawa said the federal government would continue to leverage the potential of the music industry to enhance the country’s unity.
Mrs. Musawa noted one thing that closes the ethnic and religious divides of Nigerians is art, music and fashion. She added that her ministry is working to ensure that the unity spiked by music and arts is sustained outside the entertainment space.
The Minister of Arts said this on Monday while speaking on Arise TV. She emphasized that the over 240 ethnic groups of the country can be united through arts, music and fashion for greater Nigeria. Musawa said, “ I think the unity aspect in this ecosystem or within this space is not a problem, because what you do find is the one thing that really unites us as a people is our arts.
“It’s our arts, it’s our music, it’s our fashion, it’s just our expression as a people. So for me, I do not find that divide when it comes to addressing people within this space, perhaps being the Minister of Art, Culture and Creative Economy, no matter where I go, because the issue of music, it resonates with people, no matter what community. “Yeah, but after the music concert, they’ll come out of the music hall and then become themselves again.
No, but you know, you were talking about how I deal with it as the unity aspect. What I find is wherever I go, I have that acceptability because I’m representing a part of Nigeria that resonates with Nigerians generally. “So that part of the unity is not something that we have a problem with, and I want to leverage on that to see whether we can tap and cultivate this space to bring more understanding and unity for us as a people of 240 different diverse tribes and cultures, right, and languages, that part.
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