#5Writing of books has been made on the Ameru culture, e.g., Miturire ya Ameru (Meru traditional lifestyles) by Gitobu Rinyiru, and translation of the work into English is in progress, by Prof F.X. Research into Ameru cultural traditional instruments is in progress.
#4Cultural Festivals have been started: Songs, foods, Drinks and Traditional medicines promoted. The communities appreciate KiMeru service because every member of community is thereby informed and entertained. #3Local language Radio service, Muga-FM, was established 2005, transmitting cultural values to every corner of Meru. NjuriNceke recently advised youths of Meru against misbehaviour during post election violence in Kenya at the beginning of 2008. #2NJURINCEKE (traditional council of elders) has been resurrected and uplifted as a cultural entity, outreaching all parts of Meru land model for good governance and African democracy. The Ameru Cultural Centre (ACCAW) is planned to coordinate all cultural activities of the Ameru people, recognise them and promote them, making effort to marry the past and the present cultural history, manufacture traditional cultural instruments and create employment industries building technologies in games, dances, foods, drinks, plants and traditional medicines and promoting modern technology transfer in order to add value to traditional culture by way of printed materials, audio and video recordings, and film making. #1Today a suitable location and piece of land (about 8 acres) is identified by ACRI to the North-East of Mount Kenya, adjacent to the traditional convention centre of the Meru people, a place rich with Meru African cultural history, since 1842 A.D., NCHIRU- Kunene, when the first Meru constitutional conference was made. This is what makes ACRI unique it will establish African cultural mines for extracting cultural gems from traditional spiritual values A deliberate scientific extraction, to highlight and refine certain important values, philosophies, viewpoints, and visions, which characterised the soul of the traditional African societies, has not been done. We may say also that African cultures are automatically being integrated into the global civilisation through varied human interaction. The approach of ACRI envisions results that will benefit not only Africa, par excellence, but the world at large.
The efforts of ACRI are geared to highlighting the existence of the different facets of African culture and to go further on and recommend the retention and/or rejection of certain aspects of the negative culture. This imperative is equally pertinent to the Africans lost in the Diaspora. Ěfrica's emerging generation will have what to fall back to when they realise the damage that may have been done on them by cultural alienation. Then these values would be packaged by way of writing, filming, videotaping and other methods, including performance and cultural centres, then present them to the world for global enrichment. It is possible to study the various aspects of the African culture, extract relevant elements that may be useful in guiding Africa and the world. Some values based on the African heritage could be very useful in helping Africa find it's own way inside out and shape the emerging global family with inputs that are not necessarily materialistic. This materialism does not seem adequate as a value for guiding the global international family. The values ruling the international communities presently are dominated by the philosophy of materialism, which is essentially a western cultural element. The observed reality of the world today appears to vindicate the following assumptions: Recommening appropriate action Pays principaux d'activité:Īfrican Cultural Regeneration Institute (ACRI), aims at promoting African culture by way of identifying relevant indigenous cultural values that Africa can use for her own development today as well as for lending to the emerging global family, by way of Basic Education Evaluation Body mandates: 2011 2012 Date de création: 2003