‘Beautiful Camp’ Alumni Deploy AI To Counter Narratives About Nigeria

Alumni of the Beautiful Camp, maiden edition, Osasogie Guobadia and Nazifi Abdullahi are deploying AI successful accepted filmmaking to code topical societal issues.

The resulting diagnostic movie built astir the girl-child, scheduled to statesman shooting connected October 12, 2025, is portion of their nonsubjective of utilizing AI and storytelling to antagonistic antagonistic narratives astir Nigeria portion providing the close accusation via infotainment that edifies the quality tone and aspirations.

Guobadia (actress and make-up artist) connected with Abdullahi (a broadcast reporter) astatine the Beautiful Camp Bootcamp past September. The camp, founded by Jos Repertory Theatre (JRT) with the enactment of the Czech Foreign Ministry’s Czech Transition Development Programme, trained 15 young artists/creatives – spanning assorted genres of creation – connected however to deploy their trade and influential platforms successful the dispersed of the principles of democracy, quality rights, quality dignity and state of the press.

These person been the cornerstones of the Czech Republic’s ideology contiguous and a means done which 2 nations, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, achieved the peaceful constitution of Czechoslovakia connected January 1, 1993.

Since then, the Czech Republic has taken it upon itself to dispersed these principles to different nations arsenic the instauration of immoderate democracy.

While civilian societies and ineligible practitioners are often the go-to professionals for promoting the principles above, the laminitis of JRT, Dr Patrick Jude Oteh, envisioned that these principles tin beryllium champion expressed by young artists who person originative skills and tin interruption down the messages successful a mode that volition beryllium much relatable to their assemblage members. In addition, beforehand understanding, tolerance and the scope of the artists’ messaging done their collaboration crossed assorted geopolitical zones.

Guobadia and Abdullahi’s ongoing task is simply a collaboration betwixt North Central (Abuja) and North West (Kano), fulfilling portion of Oteh’s imagination for the Beautiful Camp.

The histrion brings her expertise successful filmmaking and basal cognition of AI, combining that with Abdullahi’s broadcast journalism skills to make a earthy five-minute video which features an AI representation and voiceover of astir each 15 participants astatine the footwear camp. Today, their diagnostic movie project, addressing the girl-child and combining AI and accepted filmmaking techniques, volition statesman filming successful October.

While it was hard to hold connected a topical issue, Guobadia said their shared involvement successful “using films arsenic a strategy for wide accusation and societal change” strengthened their connection.

“You indispensable cognize that successful Nigeria, if you bash not person a precise large purse oregon entree to finance, you are constricted to moving with chap creatives successful your contiguous locality. The Beautiful Camp offers america the accidental to conscionable and align our enactment with our idiosyncratic styles.

“This is inactive a enactment successful progress. Nigeria is genuinely blessed and Czech Aid’s Beautiful Camp is making america realise that creativity tin beryllium borderless. And the stories from each geopolitical portion are inspiring. It has been an inspiring journey,” Guobadia said.

Beautiful Camp Bootcamp 2.0 volition beryllium held successful Abuja from September 21 to 25, hosting 30 creatives, media, acquisition and ineligible practitioners.