Impact Report
We are in the National Film Institute here in Jos, Nigeria. We are running a training program for skills acquisition. We’re calling the African Film Institute Ideas Tibet Skill Training Initiative. Why it’s different is in this same institute here we train people for diplomas and degrees, but this is different because that people have degrees doesn’t necessarily mean they have skills, so we want skills, things they can do with their minds and their hands. So people have gone to school, have degrees, but they don’t necessarily have skills. So we’re teaching cinematography, video, content creation, drone, scriptwriting, acting, and performance skills here under the digital and creative media production skills.
We need books because, irrespective of the popular notion that books are dead, books have some of the rare knowledge that Africans need, especially Africans, you know, so, people go to search for knowledge and all of that online, but unfortunately, not everything is in digital form online. There are still these books here contain a lot of good ideas, good initiatives that have not been acted upon.
We’ve received around 4,000 books from Books2Africa. A lot of material, diverse materials here. There’s camera books here that have some of the vintage cameras and lenses that you don’t see. Again, so it’s a good reference right now they’re using the book to train those that are in cinematography and lighting class. I have to tell you how important we’re using it today, now, right now, as we’ve received it.