DIVERSIFYING NIGERIA'S ECONOMY THROUGH VISUAL ARTS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Résumé

The idea of economic diversification is now a national issue, no serious-minded economic policy formulators and administrators of modern times can afford to undermine visual art education, in-house economic structure (micro –economy), the arts and the needs for agricultural produce, art and crafts have sustained the Nigeria economy in the past before the advent of oil and gas exploration in Nigeria. Nigeria economy still depend largely on oil and gas sector, but the current administration in its effort to rebrand the economy is trying to shift base to other sectors of the economy. In conformity, series of results of researches have been published, economic submits have been conducted in order to call to attention public and private (business) sector in the economy, professional groups, individuals, academics, economists, researchers, journalists alike, the need for modification of the establishment of the other sectors to revive the whole system in conformity with the needed economic development. This paper is therefore intended to discuss with detail definition and clarification of few vital concepts. Analyze the importance of visual arts and its role in economic development. Conclusively, the paper is of the view that Nigeria has economic human resources, endowed artistic manpower; what the country needs is sustainable and reliable educational programs and the strengthening of the visual art education both the institutional and its practice