It captures a lot of things and few of the important things that you made a post about few days back most especially when it comes to STRUCTURE around what we are creating as a continent. As they always say, who has the piper dictates the tune and we are already seeing that.
Today's post reminded me of the early 2000s when I grew up seeing vinyl records, video cassettes, emergence of CDs with Nigeria artists releasing songs in CDs, radios shows, and programs like Kennis Music show on AIT was one the ways many of us then got to know about some of the artists then, and like you said, what has always been missing is the WELL DEFINED STRUCTURE, and sadly we don't even have a central data channel that can help us project what creatives are churning out.
Now I can discover new artists with just a click on Spotify and all.
This is a good read.
It captures a lot of things and few of the important things that you made a post about few days back most especially when it comes to STRUCTURE around what we are creating as a continent. As they always say, who has the piper dictates the tune and we are already seeing that.
Today's post reminded me of the early 2000s when I grew up seeing vinyl records, video cassettes, emergence of CDs with Nigeria artists releasing songs in CDs, radios shows, and programs like Kennis Music show on AIT was one the ways many of us then got to know about some of the artists then, and like you said, what has always been missing is the WELL DEFINED STRUCTURE, and sadly we don't even have a central data channel that can help us project what creatives are churning out.
Now I can discover new artists with just a click on Spotify and all.
Thank you Layo for this.
I really appreciate your comment Tella, especially that line about “who has the piper dictates the tune”, that’s the whole tension.
We’ve always found ways to distribute music, from cassettes to radio to CDs. What’s new is scale. What’s still missing is structure.
Discovery is now effortless. Value capture still isn’t.
That gap is where everything sits.
Valid point. I just hope we get to the point where the value will be captured and save for future generations to benefit from.