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The Nelson Mandela Centre for African and Creole Culture
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The African Cultural Centre was inaugurated on the 27th October 1986 and is now known as the Nelson Mandela Centre for African Culture. Since then, the Nelson Mandela Centre has continued to provide people with a unique insight into African and Creole Culture.

In 1989, the African Cultural Centre Trust Fund was formally established by an enactment of the Parliament of Mauritius-Act No.41 of 1989. In June 2000, the African Cultural Centre Trust Fund Act was amended by the National Assembly and became the Nelson Mandela Centre for African Culture Trust Fund Act-Act No.5 of  2000.

The Trust Fund is managed by a Board of Trustees nominated by the Minister of Arts Culture and operates under the aegis of the Ministry of Arts and Culture.

The main objectives of the Trust are inter-alia:

♦  To preserve and promote African arts and culture

♦  To preserve and promote Creole arts and culture

♦  To collect, publish and disseminate information with respect to the African and Creole arts and culture

♦  To do research and to reflect on the impact slavery has had in Mauritius and

♦  To establish useful links with organizations engaged in similar activities locally and internationally.

Thereafter, in 2000, the Government amended the previous Act and introduced the "Nelson Mandela Centre for African Culture Trust Fund Act".

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