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Millions of Streams, Little Ownership: Is Nigeria Building a Music Industry or Just Exporting Talent? with Shola Bamidele

Millions of Streams, Little Ownership: Is Nigeria Building a Music Industry or Just Exporting Talent? with Shola Bamidele21 sept42 min

Episode 239 with Shola Bamidele, Founder and CEO of Loom Rooms, a creative ecosystem helping African artists develop their craft, strengthen their identities and build sustainable businesses around their work. Based in Egbeda, Alimosho, outside Lagos’s traditional creative hubs, Loom Rooms was established to address one of the biggest weaknesses within Nigeria’s entertainment economy: the lack of structure surrounding creative talent. Through creative spaces, development pathways and a colla...