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Music, art, film, fashion, and all creative mediums are unified by a common theme: their ability to powerfully communicate, and engage people through narrative.

— Nkiru Balonwu

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If you continue to hurt half of your population, your industry, your workforce, then you bind your own hands from achieving growth.

It’s time for our creatives to see themselves not just as artists, but as business people, institution builders, and financially literate architects of enterprise.

Our creative industry will not and cannot achieve its full potential through isolated success stories.

The creative industry in Nigeria has the potential to drive growth, innovation, and employment, but it lacks scalable and predictable investment frameworks.

Silence can – quite literally – kill, and when you speak out against workplace inequality and harassment, you stand up not only for yourself but for the conditions of all women.

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

Eduard Hanslick

Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

François Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)

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