Dayo Ogunyemi: Visions of Africa's future, from African filmmakers
Dayo Ogunyemi: 非洲电影人眼中非洲的未来愿景
As an entrepreneur and investor in film, media and technology, Dayo Ogunyemi reconstructs the image and reality of Africa. Full bio
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of worlds to discover.
has led to many places and possibilities,
领略了许多的可能性,
and technology in New York
and distributing films
to see firsthand how in Africa,
the marvelous and the mundane,
and fundamental truths.
of Africa's future,
of Africa's imagined and lived reality,
现实中的生活提供了微妙的影像
of Africa that come from outside,
that accompany all of these images,
shape or distort
persist from pictures,
in Ethiopia 30 years ago,
half a century ago.
where the average age is 17,
seem almost prehistoric.
see themselves and their neighbors.
怎样看待自己和邻居,
do not represent their reality.
并没有表达他们的现实生活。
many realities do we choose to focus on?
非洲现实中选择哪一种去关注。
imagination of Africa in 2017
2017年关于非洲的想象吗?
have seven or eight children?
依靠联合国的统计关于
has a fertility rate as high as seven?
一个高达7个这样高的生育率?
and life expectancy in Africa today
to the US a hundred years ago,
infant mortality in half
since the year 2000?
人均寿命增加了10年。
He's just wrong.
to dismiss Africa as hopeless,
很容易认为非洲没有希望,
that a billion people
towards prosperity.
of turning their gaze elsewhere,
to tell our own stories
to an African audience,
in African imaginations.
the rest of the world
in a thought exercise.
all the modern ideas,
that we have today?
of life and living conditions for people?
生活质量和生存环境?
all the knowledge we have today,
surgery techniques,
cancer research and treatment?
to modern semiconductors,
a quantum leap forward, couldn't we.
实现巨大的飞跃,难道不是吗?
of that magnitude today.
in living conditions
it's an imperative for Africa's future,
对于非洲的未来,这是当务之急,
Africa's population double
in just three decades,
have the world's largest workforce,
世界上最大的劳动力市场
is being radically reconsidered.
isn't that far-fetched.
that demonstrate the potential
working phone lines.
mobile phone subscriptions,
is mirrored in every African country.
正在非洲的其他国家如法炮制着。
mobile phones in use in Africa today,
excitement about leapfrogging,
artificial intelligence,
before the roads.
and logical layer to innovation
infrastructure gaps
have to think about them.
went off for a day,
for three hours at a time,
with electricity.
换成电力资源再次同样设想。
your TVs, your microwaves,
to government offices,
that hundreds of millions of Africans
widespread and affordable access
因为确保对于基础设施和服务的
the hundred-year leap.
of the mobile miracle
一个超出期望的好处就是
the greatest cultural resurgence
to local dominance
isn't limited just to music.
might be dated,
外部形象可能会显得过时,
as does African film.
正如非洲电影一样,在继续进步着。
the rest of the world catches on,
hard-hitting "Viva Riva!"
poetic "Timbuktu."
more and more of these films,
matters less in Kinshasa or Cotonou
the "New York Times" thinks?
are validating African art and ideas,
正在激活和验证非洲的艺术和想法,
are connecting with their core audiences.
与他们的核心观众建立连接。
can illuminate and inspire.
to us here in the present.
as a conveyor belt for hope.
faster than we can build roads.
也是非洲最大的电影工业,
words and languages
and imaginations of millions
since the Berlin Conference
division across Africa.
the creativity to generate ideas
ideas from anywhere else in the world
in Africa's people,
to make the hundred-year leap,
a prosperous Africa,
better than it is today.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dayo Ogunyemi - Cultural media builderAs an entrepreneur and investor in film, media and technology, Dayo Ogunyemi reconstructs the image and reality of Africa.
Why you should listen
Over his career, Dayo Ogunyemi has worked as an entrepreneur, investor, music journalist, DJ, producer, entertainment and IP lawyer and strategy consultant. Now he advises, promotes and invests in companies in Africa's creative and entrepreneurial scenes, including startups in technology, fashion and apparel, event production, content aggregation, film production and distribution. 234 Media's portfolio includes mSurvey, Cinemart, Starflix Cinemas, House of Deola Sagoe, Pixaplex and the African Movie Academy Awards.
Prior to 234 Media, Ogunyemi founded Lexscape, a start-up that used AI and expert system technology to change the consumption and practice of law. He subsequently co-founded Constant Capital, a West African boutique investment bank. Ogunyemi has long been interested in the impact of technology and media on how societies and economies develop, especially in Africa, stemming back to 1991 when he founded Naijanet (the first Nigerian online community) as a freshman at MIT.
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