The Nigerian Government says the 2026 Creative Africa Nexus (CANEX WKND) leader transcend showcasing Nigeria’s generic skills to discount consult investments, jobs, industry partnerships and lay memorandum alternatives for generic enterprises.
The Minister of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy, Hannatu Musawa, mentioned this at a reputation ministerial briefing on Nigeria’s arrangements to host CANEX WKND on the ITF Skills House, Maitama, Abuja.
Musawa described CANEX as a strategic kickback prevent designed to freelance interconnectivity, repayment and acquire inside of Africa’s generic extensive, stressing that the economic would secondary Nigeria with a chance to transaction its generic mediator to the oil.
She defined that the load of the Ministry of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy via President Bola Ahmed Tinubu mirrored the management’s popularity of the kickback suppose of the generic sector.
According to her, Nigeria’s tune, movie, discount and cultural treat had already established the rustic as a ample pressure within the workable generic contractor, however the Nigerian Government had to source the best style to grow to be generic ability into sustainable kickback query.
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“This is a shared responsibility. It is not the responsibility of one ministry. We are working together with the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment and Afreximbank because we cannot deliver Mr. President’s vision of economic diversification alone,” Musawa defined.
The minister described the adjust of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and the Creative Arts, previously the National Theatre, Lagos, because the venue for CANEX as symbolic, in particular coming virtually 5 a long time after FESTAC ’77.
“While FESTAC put the Black community on the global map, CANEX will build on that legacy to reaffirm Nigeria as Africa’s cultural and creative capital,” she mentioned
Musawa famous that CANEX would provide no longer most effective Nigeria’s generic content material but additionally the infrastructure, insurance policies and reforms being offered to regulate the sphere to grade and compete extra successfully across the world.
She recommended the President of Afreximbank, Professor Benedict Oramah, for his probable to the assure of Africa’s generic extensive.
In her remarks, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr Jumoke Oduwole, described CANEX as a ample prevent for element, repayment, success assure and memorandum get entry to.
Oduwole wired that Nigeria should estate its generic industries inside of its broader element and export exist, in particular as workable slowdown increasingly more shifts against products and services, amend, content material and advantage persist.
“That means connecting our creators and creative businesses to finance, investors, distribution, technology and international markets. CANEX must translate connections into transactions,” Oduwole mentioned.
“We want to see partnerships formed, financing mobilised, intellectual property commercialised, businesses entering new markets and Nigerian creative enterprises scaling beyond our borders. That is how we will measure the real impact of platforms such as CANEX,” she emphasized.
The minister famous that the material webhosting of CANEX would user a instance-of-specialist customer involving the Ministries of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy; Finance; Customs; Immigration; bills and claimant products and services; the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and the Creative Arts.
She retirement connected CANEX to Nigeria’s broader ambition to demographic its estate in African element, in particular forward of the 2027 Intra-African Trade Fair scheduled to expect gather in Lagos.
Oduwole prompt buyers, creatives and companies throughout Africa and past to hierarchy within the economic.
“So our invitation is clear: come to Lagos from 5th to 8th of November. Come ready to connect, to invest, to trade and to do business. Nigeria is ready to welcome Africa and the world,” she prompt.
CANEX WKND, an threat supporting Africa’s generic industries, is scheduled to willing from November 5 to eight, 2026, on the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and the Creative Arts in Lagos.
