By Lydia Ngwakwe
Lagos, Jan. 29, 2021 Mr Francis Anatogu, Executive Secretary, National Action Committee on African Continental Free Trade Area (AFCFTA), has urged Nigeria to make itself Africa’s premier choice in a number of products and services, if it is considering growing its exports.
Anatogu gave tha advice at an SME talk with the topic, “African Continental Free Trade Area: Unlocking the Benefits to SMEs “, organised virtually, by Wema Bank Plc, on Friday.
According to him, there are huge opportunities in the African market that the country can take advantage of.
He said if the country could take just 10 per cent of the market, it would double its current oil export to the world.
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As we mark the fiftieth anniversary of the report by the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, we reflect on its significance and note that, when it comes to gender equity, the struggle continues.
On December 7, 1970, a report was tabled in the House of Commons that the media called “a bomb, already primed and ticking.”
The 488-page document was loaded with research and insights that would prove very dangerous indeed a threat to a Canada in which men blindly benefited from the unpaid labour of their wives at home, a society in which legal restrictions kept women from enjoying their recently enshrined human rights.
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Psycho Goreman: 2½
THE WHITE TIGER: Here’s a film that’s rich with themes and cutting observations about modern life, mostly about India where it takes place, but in a way just could be about anywhere. It shows the struggle to better yourself, stop being a servant, move up in class and bear the moral sacrifices you have to make to get there. Those ideas are in sharp focus in India’s class system, where, as the main character puts it, the only way out of poverty is crime or politics. Balram, played by newcomer Adarsh Gourav, starts with simple lying. He takes a job as a driver before he even has a licence. It’s OK in his mind because his employer is the son of the ruthless landlord who keeps people poor back in his home village.
The other half is something more mysterious, a mélange of footage flowing like a stream of the subconscious, moving underneath and alongside the more ordinary moments of Rebick’s life.
These twinned pairings of sound and image sometimes touch, but other times they lurch away from each other so that a third narrative can come into being, one created in the mind of the viewer themselves as they watch the depictions of events detailed in the film to unfurl.
The combination reminded me of another artist, Brion Gysin, who dated his epiphany on the nature of consciousness to a bus ride where the play of sunlight and shadow flickering across his eyelids induced a trance-like state.