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Afro - Brazilian Cultural Center, Popo Aguda, Lagos Island

During the private interaction (due to the advent of covid-19 second wave scare in Nigeria) and commissioning of the Afro - Brazilian Cultural Centre, Popo Aguda, Lagos Island, by the Brazilian Descendants Association Lagos, led by Graciano Oladipo Martins on the 13th of March 2021, the community leaders expressed their joy and commented that they are glad that this communal development is happening in their time.

In the speech of Papa Martins, he commented that it is a privilege to be alive to witness the establishment of the Afro - Brazilian Cultural Centre in the Popo Aguda community. 

The Afro - Brazilian Cultural Centre is a place where visitors, both local and international will experience and learn about the Afro - Brazilian music, delicacies and history in Lagos Nigeria. 

Papa Graciano Oladipo Martins, further complimented and thanked the developers and managers of the cultural centre; Loving Lagos (Mr Lawon Adams), Redac Tours (Mr Oluremi Dacosta) and Anago James Akeem Osho Adventures (Mr Anago Osho) and their passion for sustainable tourism and community development and he rhetorated the continuous support of the Brazilian Descendants Association Lagos in the sustainability of the project.

Tourism Practitioners and tourists will receive private invites on a familiarization tour of the attraction centre in batches because of the scare of the second wave of covid-19 epidemic.

The centre will serve as a resource center for the documentation of the past, present and future of the Afro - Brazilian settlement in Nigeria, and is willing to partner with Africa Diaspora.







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Anago James Akeem Osho Adventures +2348037043233
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anago.tourism@gmail.com

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