, are a group of professionals known as Music Publishers, who help pitch music catalogues and track their revenue flow from everywhere their content is utilised.
As one of the young people still killing it in the industry, I want to know where your thoughts are at the moment and how you feel about everything happening now? As someone who started at a young age and worked with people who were older, how were you able to build trust without an extensive portfolio?
Yeah, I would say approach but it was more like he was handed to me because Osagie basically introduced me to MI. After we met, we decided to work with each other. We were introduced to each other; we saw opportunities in working and we took it there.I didn’t really have any point of reference. I had to fail through the process.
Right now, our focus is working with governments to help develop their creative economies. We are currently talking to a few governments across Africa to see how they would be able to support the youth in their communities to be part of the programme. We are looking at francophone Africa because language is another barrier. So we are looking at creating multiple versions – the French version, the Swahili version and possibly the Portuguese version of the programme.
Looking at the state of publishing in Nigeria, do you think we would catch up with other parts of the world?