Nigeria, France synergy to equip African creatives with tech tools

…How AI AR, AV whitethorn assistance close African narratives

…As Globacom throws enactment down Africa’s astir promising talents

By Prince Osuagwu, Hi-Tech Editor

How to carve a synergy betwixt exertion and originative arts was the centre of discussions precocious successful Lagos, astatine this year’s Forum Création Africa.

The Forum is an inaugural of the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, organized by MansA (Maison des Mondes Africains), to foster dialog and collaboration betwixt Africa and Europe.

The lawsuit brought unneurotic stakeholders from crossed the taste and originative industries, providing a invaluable level for exchange, inspiration, and partnership.

The lawsuit besides saw to the honour of astir promising African talents for creating compelling stories and narratives that highlights African creativity and prowess. Incidentally, 1 of Africa’s notable philanthropists and Chairman Nigeria-based telecom Company, Globacom, Otunba Mike Adenuga jr, picked the bills.

Held from 16th to 18th October 2025 astatine the Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos, the forum, successful its 2nd edition, celebrated outstanding innovation and originality successful areas specified arsenic video games, integer fashion, tv series, webtoons, animation, and immersive technologies including Artificial Intelligence, AI, augmented and virtual world (AR/VR). 

A cardinal item of the lawsuit took spot connected 17th October, erstwhile participants engaged successful an industry-focused league entitled “From Idea to Business: How to Put Creativity astatine the Heart of the Game.” The league featured insights from starring Nigerian concern figures, including renowned banker and entrepreneur Mr Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede.

He shared perspectives connected the convergence of creativity, artificial intelligence, and concern occurrence saying that a due deployment of Artificial Intelligence tools could assistance spur occurrence wrong the expanding originative economy.

Aig-Imoukhuede was not alone. In different session, “African Minds, Global Machines: What Does AI Really Mean for Creatives connected the Continent?”  which saw integer artists and tech innovators research the ethical, cultural, and creator implications of AI connected the continent’s originative industries, creators were charged to spot Artificial Intelligence (AI) arsenic a instrumentality for enhancing their quality and innovation alternatively than a menace to originality and quality creativity.

Senegalese integer artist, Hussein Dembel, said the emergence of AI represents some an accidental and a motivation trial for the originative world.

According to him, “There volition beryllium a displacement successful the mode we deliberation arsenic creatives. If you tin deliberation it, you tin marque it. AI allows america to bring imaginativeness to beingness faster than ever before.

“We are heading to a satellite wherever films tin beryllium made 100 per cent by AI. It’s frightening due to the fact that immoderate of that exertion already exists.

“But volition audiences wage to ticker contented without the quality touch? We’re truthful successful tune with quality emotion that absorption volition decidedly come.”

Dembel’s statement was that though AI tools tin heighten post-production enactment successful filmmaking specified arsenic ocular effects and greenish surface editing, making artists much productive, ethical questions astir originality and copyright whitethorn however, go much urgent issues to tackle.

He added that portion immoderate creators are licensing their artworks for AI training, protecting copyright successful the AI epoch remains precise hard and slippery, arsenic lines betwixt quality and machine-generated enactment proceed to blur.

Also, laminitis of Swift XR, Hammed Arowosegbe, said the aboriginal of African creativity with AI depends connected acquisition and liable use.

For him, “Africa indispensable usage it to archer its ain stories. Education is crucial, due to the fact that we request to spell from being consumers of exertion to creators. The much discourse and precision you springiness AI, the much almighty your output becomes.”

He advised that creators should not outsource their minds oregon delegate their autonomies to AI b...