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The Niger cultural centers help in the preservation of the cultural heritage of the nation of Niger in the heart of West Africa. There have been several coalitions between the Government of Niger and other nations like France and United States of America to set up the Niger cultural centers. One of the renowned Niger Cultural centers is the Franco-Nigerian Cultural Center. It preserves the age old traditional manuscripts. It even preserves the traditional artifacts of Niger.
In the Franco-Nigerian Cultural Center, the tourists can find the French relics. The relics reveal the factor that Niger was once powered by French. The new generation of Niger can learn the cultural heritage of Niger when it pays visit to such Niger Cultural Centers. The modern technology is even used in these Cultural centers to make the sessions more interactive.
The US/Nigerian partnership has helped in receiving grant for the Niger's Institute of Human Sciences Research or IRSH. The US Embassy organized a program on 28th September in the year of 2006 to mark the beginning of Ramadan. This effort was initiated to preserve Niger's Islamic patrimony. IRSH was granted a lump sum from the Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation in Niger in 2004. The grant aims at the preservation and maintenance of an endangered collection of Islamic manuscripts, which date from the 14th and 15th centuries. The Islamic manuscripts count an excess of 4000 in number. The grant helped further to equip the IRSH with computer equipments and software to digitize the documents.
The Niger Cultural centers have been opened for the general public view. The visitors have been requested to help the authority to preserve the cultural heritage of Niger.
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