African kings/queens exhibit at House of Culture

The House of Culture invites the public to a rare exhibition bow underway at their gallery on Regent Street. The show features African kings and queens who lived between the period of 1500 B.C. and 1923 A.D. The display is sponsored by the National Institute of Culture and History in collaboration with the Institute of Social and Cultural Research. According to I.C.I.R.’s researcher, Froyla Salam, there is wealth of information for Belizeans, especially history students.

Froyla Salam, Researcher, I.C.I.R.

“We wanted to show people, especially students of African history, that Africa has a lot to contribute. African civilisation was a great contributor to Western civilisation as we now know it and we wanted to have students have an opportunity to come and see for themselves the history of these people and how they contributed to their individual societies and likewise, how we can learn from them. We encourage students of history to come and have a look and take something back and learn from it and hopefully that way they will be able to help themselves interpret their own African-Belizean history.”

The exhibition runs until the end of January. The House of Culture gallery is open from eight-thirty a.m. to eight-thirty p.m.