Nigeria’s former Minister of
Education and former World Bank Vice President for Africa, Dr (Mrs) Oby
Ezekwesili has lauded Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi
for creating the right atmosphere and promoting the existence of creative minds
in the state in Nigeria’s emerging creative industry.
Dr Ezekwesili said Governor
Amaechi’s remarkable effort had attracted most enterprising creative minds to
the state, contributing to state economy.
She spoke in Port Harcourt on
Tuesday while delivering a keynote address on “Literature and the creative
economy” at the Hotel Presidential, Port Harcourt, as part of activities
marking this year’s Port Harcourt Book Festival.
She said economies gain more
opportunities to succeed “by taking hold of the collective talents of a larger
number of citizens connected to a broader, more reachable world than used to be
the case. creative industries are generally small businesses, self-employment
and plenty of informality, deriving from networks and contacts”.
Commending Governor Amaechi who
also is the chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Dr Ezekwesili said: “For in
the development of a larger and more integrated creative society and creative
economy, the literature community benefits. It has been found that in societies
where the cluster approach to the development of the creative industries has
enabled a value chain connectivity of literature to music to film to fashion,
there has been greater acceleration of value creation within that industry.
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