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Nigeria is suffering from creative brain drain, all our entertainers are relocating abroad – Emma Ugolee warns

Nigerian writer and broadcaster, Emma Ugolee has just shared a piece warning about an impending shortage of entertainers that may befall the country if all our creative heads continue to relocate and abscond from the country.

See his piece below…

Dbanj, JJC. Sauce Kid, Weird MC, Bantu some of the many musicians moving home to Nigeria showed how well our entertainment industry was doing. Very soon. Nollywood and Broadcasting caught the home coming bug with the invasion of phonetics in our air waves

The breaking sad news today is “That era is dead” The exact reverse is now the case. The brain drain suffered in Science and technology has officially gripped the Arts.

The exodus of entertainers is disturbing

Most of our finest music producers now live in America. Dr Frabz, Cabasa, Samklef, Eldee, Jayslick to mention a few.  Same for musicians. From 2shots/Biglo to Rymzo/Kaha, Wakomzi. This list is growing everyday  A healthy dose of our actors are now Canada bound outside the likes of Joseph Benjamin. Gbero and Stella amongst many in America

Our Comedians now tour cities in Europe and the US while 3/4 of Nigerians  have never witnessed their live performances. The Sammie Okposo led Gospel arm of the industry have 80% of their bookings in the UK & US

Not to mention Movie directors. Jeta Amata, Robert Peters, Nevada and co. Some of our best hands now in Atlanta and  California. This is outside super producers like Emem Isong & Stephinie Linus.

I have seen more Nigerian owned audio visual studios in Baltimore than they have in VI. Nigerian Editors and Engineers everywhere/ Nigerian owned dance Classes all over London, ATL and LA.

Did i mention some of our best Talent hunters/managers  Audu Makouri, Tbillz .
There is a huge problem. A quiet storm brewing.  With music, the C list is clearly extinct & the B list is on death row. Only money bags (aka chairmen) pay talent now. The system doesn’t 

This is most disheartening because the world is finally talking about music, movies and dance from Nigeria.

At this rate, in 10years it might be wrong to call entertainment our biggest export because export means they come to us to pay for it as we keep producing domestically. That is not the current situation. Entertainers need structural support to keep the LION HEART 

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