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Recently in far away United States of America, the CBCIU operating under the auspicies of UNESCO launched its arm
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We are celebrating Ulli Beier, who died on 3rd March, 2010 on Saturday, 2nd July, 2011 ...readmore |
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- August 23-27, 2010
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THEME: The Past, Present and Future of a Rich Heritage.
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Slavery had existed for much of human history for it would seem that every agrarian...readmore |
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Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding (CBCIU), Osogbo, was set up in 2009, with the administrative building officially commissioned on January 7 by Koichuro Matsuura, the Director-General of UNESCO. But the grand opening ceremony had been preceded by years of hard thinking and hard planning, and by several visits by UNESCO officials to both Osogbo and Sydney, Australia, as well as by Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, then the governor of Osun State, to Paris.
The ‘remote’ genesis of the establishment of CBCIU goes back to the 1950s, when Ulli Beier, then living in Osogbo, became a good friend of Oba Moses Oyinlola, the Olokuku of Okuku then. Such was their friendship that even though Oba Moses Oyinlola died in 1960, Ulli Beier never forgot him, still writing copiously and glowingly about him in his numerous publications on Yoruba society and culture decades after.
It was therefore natural that when Prince Oyinlola commissioned a short biography of his father, Ulli Beier would be consulted. Having cooperated so well in the writing of the book, it was also natural that he would be invited to its launch in 2005. Ulli Beier and his wife Georgina were therefore guests of Prince Oyinlola in Osogbo for about a week. A man generally inclined to be skeptical about people in power, and never wanting to have anything to do with them, Ulli was nevertheless impressed by his late friend’s son and, during one of their evening conversations, mentioned that, as he was now old and considered all his life’s work done, he wanted to bequeath his archival materials to Osogbo—could Prince Oyinlola find a place for it? |
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Mission
To elevate Black culture by focusing on its recovery, preservation, promotion, and utilization of its enduring ways of being for the purposes of holistic development, appreciation, and international understanding. |
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Goals
To retrieve, curate, and sustain historic cultural assets.
To foster cross-cultural and inter-generational engagement for global harmony. |
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Strategies
Education and Research
Collaboration and networking
Acquisition of adequate resources |
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