African creatives in the emerging technologies industries of Extended Reality (XR), Animation, eSports, eGames and Films said the industry’s ecosystem in
The creatives who spoke at the Creation Africa forum, advocated the need for targeted funding of the industry’s variant ecosystem and the creation of a conducive environment necessary for it to thrive.
Founder of Imisi 3D, a Nigerian XR organization, Judith Okonkwo, lamented the ‘critically under-resourced’ status of the XR ecosystem in Africa. Similarly, they recommended attention should be paid to women, and women minorities, in the emerging technologies space such as eGames and eSports that are particularly, white-male dominated.
Despite the challenges of the new technologies industry in Africa, some measure of hope arises with the appointment of the industry-friendly-experts as ministers in Nigeria, and the launch of Creation Africa forum by the French Government. On the impact of Creation Africa on the industry, both believe that it is an important platform for networking African creatives and their French counterparts, as well as an opportunity to swap expertise, partnerships and funding, and opening up new markets for Africa’s creative entrepreneurs.
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