See what is happening to Aso Oke in Ekiti State

Bring back our indigenous industries !Aso Oke is from Ekiti!
The loom. Ekiti has been making cloth before the European!
Director -General , Ekiti State Council for Arts and Culture , Ambassador  Wale Ojo Lanre trying his hands on a local loom in his office during a meeting with Aso Oke weavers in Ekiti on Wednesday in his office .

     The resuscitation and enhancement of Ekiti traditional fabrics would be given priority as a way of sustaining the rich cultural heritage of Ekiti on the one hand and as a tool for providing employment for the unemployed teeming youths.
    The Director General, Ekiti State Council for Arts and Culture,Ambassador Wale Ojo Lanre made this disclosure while hosting weavers of traditional fabrics popularly known as"" Aso Oke

in his office in Ado.
    Ojo Lanre in his submissions maintained that the Dr Kayode Fayemi's led administration was committed to hunting the various talents in arts and culture with a view to promoting such and market them to the world for economic gains.
    "We should not allow our culture to be suppressed by western civilization, Ekiti is endowed with human and natural resources which is unique, we should not allow this to die but rather they should be identified and promoted for globalization, "he said.
  The indigenous traditional weaver, Mrs Agbaje Odunayo who demonstrated the process of weaving the attire lauded the present administration's efforts at rejuvenating the arts and cultural sector and called on the youths particularly the unemployed to embrace the opportunity at their disposal to improve their standard of living.
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