Google has partnered with Pan Atlantic University to help preserve Nigerian culture online. Google’s body responsible for this initiative, the Google Cultural Institute, was set up in 2010 for this objective. The Institute is an effort to make important cultural material available and accessible to everyone and to digitally preserve it to educate and inspire future generations. This is Google’s first partnership in Nigeria.
It is believed that that the Cultural Institute can be an especially useful way to engage students, scholars and teachers through innovative and interactive learning.
According to Google, UNESCO estimates that half of 6,000 plus languages and cultures today will disappear by the end of this century if nothing is done to preserve them.
To date, Google has partnered with hundreds of museums, cultural institutions, and archives to host some of their cultural treasures online. A notable one is the collaboration with Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory to host Mandela’s archives online.
Nigeria’s Pan-Atlantic University presents its collection of rare historical documents and photographs.
Spanning 1851-1914, they tell the story of Nigeria’s formation as a colony.
The second exhibition traces the transformation of Lagos from a cosmopolitan colonial trading center to West Africa’s largest metropolis.
Lagos, Nigeria’s biggest city, is built atop a dense network of islands and waterways. It is the 7th fastest growing metropolis in the world with a population recently estimated at 9 million.
Explore Lagos, past and present!
