At a relatively young age they knew they‘d left the curriculum behind them. It’s not that they were being schooled more, or that they were inordinately bright. It’s just that their curiosity took them into the next horizon in music, creativity and collaborations. The era of Gen Zs* out-digitalizing their…

It’s 2030, a new educational revolution is upon us. Its shadow formed in a not so distant past, half crystallised by something called “Lockdown” in 2020. An increasing number of institutions run knowledge through super apps in real and virtual worlds. In part it’s a sign of its times, the…

It’s a film that peers into the chest of what cinema was in its purest form — a slice of life. Empire of Light (2022) by Sam Mendes lives in the 80s, illuminated by its fashion, Ska music, Skins and a cinematography mimicking that polaroid effect long forgotten. A young…

We’re not fulfilling out fullest potential to solve problems and address issues we’re facing or likely to face in the future because of the fixed learning system we adhere to in tertiary knowledge systems. For instance journalism, 300 years old, is found wanting today against spin when AI could swiftly…

Remember these. CD Roms and DVDs. They would come to hold the key to future designs online and content creation, despite the fact they were heading for obsolescence. In Part I, I wrote about how spotting a gap and creating content gave us an edge, but it wasn’t enough. …

Before you became that killer A writer and everyone begged you for your copy, you likely cut a lonely figure entertaining your work and…

Below, that’s King Charles in Ghana in 1977 and to the right, my father a staunch royalist throwing his party to celebrate UK-Ghana relations. This and many other photos are part of a collection shared with me by Ghana govt officials when I did some work for them. …

It was that twilight zone between a world without the web, and a world imagining the unimaginable possibilities. Noway’s police chief looked aghast. His details were unknown. In the shadowy world of crime solving, he himself was a shadow. A name, that’s all. There the personal details stopped. Within ten…

It struck me this, as it’s likely struck you. Are you the talent or the producer? And why does it matter? One can’t work without the other, yet the talent pool appears to be growing disproportionately to the producers around. We need more producers! Of course as talent you can…