Episode #66
(Season 4;
Ep.1):
Africa’s
Creative Economy (1):
Ghana vs.
Nigeria Film: Lessons Learnt?
We start off Season 4 with a bang – by jumping
into the conversation on the Creative Economy, which we started in an earlier
incarnation on 24 February 2015, and this year as “Towards an African Personality”.
We will still reprise a conversation on this theme each 24 February, but want
to use Season 4 to help unpack more concretely elements of Africa’s Creative
Economy.
Although
definitions of the Creative Economy continue to evolve, it is attributed to one
John Howkins who developed the concept in 2001 “to describe economic systems
where value is based on novel, imaginative qualities rather than traditional
resources of land; labor and capital.”
Put simply: the
term was applied to the arts; cultural goods and services; toys and games;
research and development.
It is arguable
that Africa has this in abundance, but has not necessarily been defined as such
in the strictest sense of the term. We want to provoke our listeners to
consider whether the continent’s Creative Economy can help African economies make money
to complement the traditional responses to generating revenue.
Along the value
chain of Africa’s Creative Economy is, arguably, the Film industry. Even if not
all countries possess a Film industry – but pockets of different people doing
their own thing, as stated by JOT Agyemang – it remains one of the most popular
elements of the Creative Economy.
The borrowed nomenclature
of “-wood” to both the Nigerian and Ghanaian ones are insufficient to mask the
differences of style and substance of the two countries’.
The rich history
alone of these two countries’ film needs to be unpacked – if even for the sake
of nostalgia and for the aspiration that even as Africa struggles with the
traditional ways of revenue-generation, if it just got its act together on the
Creative Economy – especially film – it would serve as a significant boost to
member countries.
Join us if
you can at 2.05pm on 16 March, 2016.
Call us on the following numbers
+233(0)289.000.931
Guiding
questions
- How
critical was Nigerian collaboration to the development of Ghanaian film?
- Can
an enhanced Nigeria-Ghana collaboration foster mutual efficiency of their
respective industries?
- What
needs to quickly-happen to make this a reality?
- What
lessons can the Ghanaian film industry draw from Nigeria’s evolution of
its film industry in making epic movies?
Guests in the studio:
Ø Elijah Iposu , former Programmes Manager, Homebase TV
Ø J.O.T Agyeman, Communications Consultant & General Manager, Productions, Global
Media Alliance Broadcasting Company
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