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This is one of the major issues why people with disabilities are not involved the arts and cultural sector, even with its abundant potential to empower a vast majority. This is the first step towards mainstreaming their issues, especially now that there is a disability law in Nigeria. There are so many art spaces coming up in Lagos alone, but most of them are built in ways to suggest that people with disabilities don’t exist. This oversight has excluded millions of talents from the arts and creative space.
Article of 30 of the United Nations Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities states clearly the need for people with disabilities to participate in the cultural, recreation, leisure, and sport. One way to ensure that this international instrument is fully domesticated in Nigeria is to ensure the implementation of the new disability law and to build the capacity of critical stakeholders in the arts and creative sector on issues of people with disabilities.