Ushafa Pottery: Where Modernity and Tradition Meet | Premium Times

Nigeria has used pottery and other arts and culture to help promote tourism in the country. It is not isolated to Nigeria, though, in the Ushafa community in the Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory is the Ushafa Cultural Pottery Center, known for their unique art. Established in 1990 by former First Ladt, Maryam Babangida, it was a community programme under the Better Life for Rural Women- encouragign entrepreneurship among women of various villages in Ushafa. SHining the edge of the pot with stones. “Makuba” or the husk of locust beans are soaked in water and the hit pot fro firing is dipped inside the mixture to color the pot- after drying it is ready to be used. Modern technology calls for more processing of the ceramics work and the refinement to do with the slower process of drying and forming a vessel.