PROMOTE OUR CULTURE THROUGH THE NEW MEDIA

Reported By: Abdullahi Baaba Muhammad (SMS/10/MAC/00807)

                        Dignitaries At the event 

There is the need to use the new media to promote our culture and identity and not just to go to websites and download information and documents but also endeavour to upload content of our culture, a university Don. professor Abdallah Uba Adamu .said yesterday. He said this while  speaking at the award ceremony  for young journalist, organized by Deutsche Welle radio in collaboration with freedom radio and Bayero University.

According to him people browse different websites to download file,music videos and audios, applications and other information without bothering about uploading similar materials or content of our own people. He  advised the students present at the occasion to cultivate the habit of uploading pictures, music videos and audios of our local stars like the k boys in mass communication department and other Hausa music stars. This he said will help in promoting our culture and create an information and awareness of the kind of people we are and things we do.

Prof. Abdallah, emphasized that constant and incessant downloads of such foreign contents without reciprocated upload of our local materials will lead to us learning foreign culture and tradition including the negative aspect of them and that the outside world would not get to learn our cultural practice.

He finally advised students to be careful with the way they use information obtained from the internet as many are capable of eroding our culture. Earlier Dr Balarebe MaiKaba warned students to be aware cultural imperialism as they go on the web to source for material and other multimedia contents.

  German Ambassador 

The German ambassador to Nigeria Ms Dorothee Jenetzke-wenzel while  speaking at the occasion also drew the attention of the students to the importance of social media that many world leaders use social networking sites to interact with their country citizens wherever they are in the world.

            She challenged mass communication students as upcoming journalist to be prepared because they have the responsibility to ask their leaders about how public funds are been managed and also ensure that Government is runon accountable and transparent manner.

            Dorothee finally said that, the event was organised to promote the good bilateral relationship between Germany and Nigeria. She thanked the organizers for making the event a success