Encore Episode | From Animation to Ecosystems with Adamu Waziri

Greetings Glocal Citizens!

This week we have an encore episode revisiting a conversation with fellow children’s content producer, Adamu Waziri. I selected this particular episode to revisit because four years later, while there are a number of new entrants in the market, those of us on a mission to tell stories that inspire children of the African Diaspora, continue to be in the trenches so-to-speak when it comes to securing the funding that keeps our catalogs growing. Fortunately we work in a space where our sotries are evergreen so whether you have been watching or listening to Adamu’s flagship program, Bino and Fino for the past decade or just coming to it now, the stories are exaclty the kind of content that empowers children to see themselves and our African stories as thier stories. This week I’m headed to Addis Ababa for my first Dream VC retreat which culminates the Investor Accelator Fellowship that I was a part of for the past five months. This is a milestone that marks an important phase along the path to bringing the PACT Fund--which is intended to solve for our ecosystem’s funding and content gaps--to life. Fellow creators like Adamu are the inspiration for the fund and I intend to apply the fund builiding skills I’ve just gained to further transform the production and distribution of our creative works into valuable global assets for children and families across the African Diaspora.

For where to find Adamu and other topics of interest visit the origninal show notes here