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Potentials of Adire Workshop in Wealth Creation Among the Youths POTENTIALS OF ADIRE WORKSHOP IN WEALTH CREATION AMONG THE YOUTHS 1Bakare, Olayinka Olumide and 2Kolawole Christianah Yetunde 1Department of Industrial Design, Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola 2Department of Industrial Design, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Abstract Informal educational skills acquisition centers serve as platform for training, employment and sustainable economic development; offers opportunity to exploit and tap from indigenous knowledge system. And given the very high unemployment situation among the young people in Nigeria, the need for the Adire workshop can be better appreciated. The workshop took some young people through the rudiments of resist dyeing fabric technique to create avenues for them through which they can create wealth and be self-reliant. Through participatory approach, they learn the various stages to producing very aesthetically appealing fabrics. This is in addition to putting them through the different materials and the different designs possible. The people believe that if governments at all levels can intervene to provide funding by way of cheap loans, unemployment amongst the youths would have been frontally attacked for the better. Key words: Resist Dyeing, Adire, Entrepreneurial, Wealth Creation. Introduction to acquisition of practical and applied skills as Indubitably, entrepreneurship has become well as basic scientific knowledge”. the only hope for Nigerian youth's development. Textile Technology and design fall within In Afolayan (2012), entrepreneurship is very the preview of technical education (Adediran, significant to the growth and development of 2004), which is one of the skills acquisition economies (keister, 2005, Abubakar, 2010). It courses in the Department of Industrial Design, contributes in no small way towards creating new and taught as Entrepreneurial Studies in the opportunities such as: new jobs, wealth creation, Department of General Studies, School of General poverty reduction and income generation for Studies in Modibbo Adama University of youths and other individuals. Wealth is the Technology, Yola, Adamawa state. As earlier abundance of valuable resources or valuable mentioned, are Entrepreneurial courses material possessions. This includes the core are designed to train undergraduate students in meaning as held in the originating old English practical / vocational skills, so that, at completion word “weal”, which is from an Indo-European of their studies, they will be self reliant and not word “stem” (Weal, 2009). An individual looking for white collar job that is not available. community, region, or country that possesses an Entrepreneurial studies are an interdisciplinary abundance of such possessions or resources to the program that provides opportunities to students to benefits of the common good is known as learn about entrepreneurship-the processes of wealthy. creating value through recognizing and Poverty on the other hand is said to be the developing opportunities. This serves to major cog in the wheel of socio-economic and compliment the student's major area of study in political development of people. In fact, it is any University, by offering a means of putting estimated that 1.3 Billion people live on less than theory and science into practice one dollar per day (World Bank Report, 2006), a https://www.business.iastate.edu situation that informed the efforts to address the various problems facing the educational system of Textile Design and production include: the country by setting up a National curriculum i. Resist fabrics Techniques (Tie Dye, conference which encouraged technical education, Batik, Bleaching production etc), defined in the National Policy on Education ii. Printing Techniques (Screen, Block, (1981) as: “That aspect of education which leads Heat Transfer production etc), Tropical Built Environment Journal, Volume 6, No 2, 2018 iii. Fashion Design (Clothing is why educational system of any society has been construction, Pattern Drafting and soft toys), seen as an elaborate social mechanism designed to iv. Hand woven Fabric (Weaving, bring about in the person submitted to it, certain Knitting, Crocheting, Embroidery etc). skills and attitude to be useful and desirable in the society (O'Connor, 1957). Resist Fabrics (Adire) and Printing However, the formal system of education Techniques have been identified as the which was imported is elitist, and cannot alone Entrepreneurial studies course at the Department provide all the education one needs for self- of Industrial Design to be one of the means of fulfillment. Despite the resources of Nigeria, providing training (a practical skill development) poverty is still prevalent. The rate of poverty in and employment, succor and wealth generation Nigeria is a little above 70% (percent) of the total for undergraduates of Modibbo Adama University population (Onike, 2007). The rate of of Technology (MAUTECH), Yola, that lead to unemployment too is alarming among graduates practical realities in Textile Design. This is one of and non graduates. If the informal education skill the technological disciplines that are gold mine as highlighted in the national policy on education whose potentials are yet to be fully developed in are properly implemented most of the vices would Nigerian universities. The Resist Techniques be eradicated gradually because many graduates, (Adire) workshop is one industry that can employ undergraduates and non graduates would be self – millions of people nationwide. employed instead of waiting for government to Resist fabrics (Adire) constitutes a vital employ them. part of the material culture of Yoruba; an It is therefore necessary to heighten effort embodiment with meanings in the motifs used for and support to develop some of the informal decoration. Adire is a Yoruba word for Tie and education skills in order to enable tertiary school Dye, it was first made by Yoruba women of old, leavers and other citizens achieve fulfillment and using varieties of resist dyeing techniques. The fullness. techniques are taught by “Informal educational skills” have mothers to daughters within dyeing therefore become important for many for their families from generation to generation. The tools livelihoods but the government is failing to and techniques used allowed the designers to recognize this as a panacea to promoting explore the inclusion of many motifs picked from development of their local economies (Kung'ethe, the environment (Adetoro, 1980). Practical 2014). workshops in modern world is as wide as the many expressions that are daily taking place in the The Concept of Wealth Creation and field of 'Creativity'. Entrepreneur Today wealth flows around The modern concept of wealth is of entrepreneurship. Nigeria and its educational significance in all areas of economics, and clearly bodies need to borrow a leaf from China and so for growth economics and development Japan where economies depend on technology. economics yet the meaning of wealth is context- Technology is the bedrock of any nation. Nigeria's dependent. According to Denis (1996), at the most Universities need to change their theoretical mind general level, economist may define wealth as set and start thinking on how to marry theory with “anything of value” that captures both the practice. 'If there must be progress, then there subjective nature of the idea that is not a fixed or must be change”, because education is a necessary static concept. He explains further that various investment and an enabling factor opening up definitions and concept of wealth have been many vistas of personal, community and national asserted by various individuals and in different development. It is very necessary for the human in contexts. Kronman (1980), Robert 1987 (2008) order to articulate self and achieve fullness. For believe that defining wealth can be a normative the survival of the human in any nation, education process with various ethical implications, since is a necessity. Education engenders development often wealth maximization is seen as a goal or is of valuable knowledge and skills in a society. This thought to be a normative principle of its own. 88 Potentials of Adire Workshop in Wealth Creation among the Youths 'Wealth' refers to some accumulation of resources among many cultures of the world. So do the post- (net asset value), whether abundant or not. industrial traditions of modern times evolve 'Richness' refers to an abundance of such varieties of pattern and design for unique resources (income flow). The Entrepreneurial ceremonies and memorable occasion (Onike, studies discipline is unique because it provides a 2007). focus for convergence of technologies. Its Nergi (1966) believes that Resist dyeing uniqueness defines its role and dictates its might have been brought to Nigeria by ancient increasing relevance in several disciplines and migrants from the decaying empire of the desert. techniques. The application of Entrepreneurial They contend that dyeing has long been practiced studies in the modern scientific and technological in Nigeria, from North to South by certain ethnic context is, therefore, infinitely wide. Some group from time immemorial. They concluded by equipped in the department and are thus saying that it is an ancient craft which are carried encouraged to function, research and engage in on in the parts of the world. Mack and Picton collaborative projects in wide contexts. (1980) agreed that the techniques of resists https://unizik.edu.ng/nauweb/depts/entrep dyeing is mainly
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