The Muhammadu Buhari Centre will celebrate Nigeria’s cultural diversity by weaving the unique and colourful aspects of Nigerian tribal, regional and state culture together into a single composition. Like the work of traditional basket weavers the Muhammadu Buhari Centre will illustrate how the delicate strands of Nigerian culture and tribal understanding can be woven together to form the shape of a nation. It will highlight how Nigeria exemplifies a unique ambition to draw strength from the variety and differences of its people and bring them together as one. In celebration of the contrasts and differences between the peoples of Nigeria form is generated from the woven strands of unique cultural identity.
The shape represents the broader coming together of a people around the higher ideals of nationhood and common understanding.