Sanwo-Olu wants creative trainees to be globally competitive
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…Unveils creative Lagos under Delyork Academy
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu has said that his administration is giving a cutting-edge opportunity to practitioners in the creative sector to compete favourably with their contemporaries across the globe in the area of directing, cinematography, acting and in all the processes of film production from script to screen.
The Governor who addressed a set of creative trainees sponsored by his administration with Del-York Academy on Tuesday in Lagos, explained that the investment in human capacity development of practitioners in the creative sector by his administration is aimed at giving the beneficiaries world-class exposure in the creative field.
The theme of this piece is Emilia Asim-Ita. So, I would go through several timelines with some memories.
If anyone had informed me that the writer’s block which I had been experiencing from the third week in December 2020 till Friday, January 29, 2021 would be unblocked and blown to smithereens by the news of the demise of Emilia Asim-Ita, I would not have found such futuristic revelation comforting, I would have shut it down and discarded it for numerous reasons (some of which I would highlight here). x
It would have been roundly rejected. But here I am, typing away on my keyboard (the first few paragraphs of this piece), on an extremely sunny Sunday (January 31, 2021) in the City of Kigali, with the Gospel band Hillsong’s songs blaring from my neighbour’s apartment and every lyric of each track now carries a different meaning. And I am doing a double take on each lyric and tabling rhetorical questions.