@benyeoma sets the ball rollinhg with his intro - Last year AfreximBank set up a $500m fund to support the creative sector signaling the importance it attaches the creative sector. We will allow Prof Benedict Oramah to give us his insights #AfricaSoftPowerSeries
Prof Oramah of @afreximbank's submission is concise and yet insightful: Rev from the creative industry was about $2.3trillion over the past few years. Africa accounted for about 1% #AfricaSoftPowerSeries
But you should look at the potential even though I am tired of hearing about potentials> we should begin to realize our potentials. Africa’s diverse people should be a huge potential for creativity #AfricaSoftPowerSeries
When Africans speak it seems like they are singing. The problem remains how do we bring this potential to the market #AfricaSoftPowerSeries
In Africa we haven’t been able to monetize the potential and bring it to market. AfCTA will help us in realizing that potential #AfricaSoftPowerSeries
To enable a market to grow we have established a Pan African payment system to make it possible for payments to be made in our local currencies #AfricaSoftPowerSeries

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23 Feb
Dean I am very interested in looking at what you are doing in Europe and what you plan to do in Africa. This is the kind of collaboration we are looking at - Chinelo Anohu: Snr. Director @AIFMarketPlace
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To meet the 60% target we must find a way to do it and this has seen overall collaboration with Africa CDC, The private sector, AfreximBank others - Benedict Oramah Pres. @Afreximbank #AfricaSoftPowerSeries
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We have approved 3 movies as of today and I am happy @netflix is here. We are working with them to ensure the movies have a direct route to market - Benedict Oramah: President @afreximbank #AfricaSoftPowerSeries
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2. This is significant especially at a time when the AfCFTA is offering significant transformative opportunities for the continent's economic growth #AfricaSoftPowerSeries.
3. In recognition of this currents, The Africa Soft Power Project brings together some of Africa’s leading voices and key decision makers this February #AfricaSoftPowerSeries
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