Dayo Ogunyemi: Visions of Africa's future, from African filmmakers
戴歐 · 歐格雅米: 非洲電影人眼中的非洲未來
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.
無限空間的世界。
has led to many places and possibilities,
帶來許多地方和可能性,
and technology in New York
and distributing films
to see firsthand how in Africa,
the marvelous and the mundane,
奇妙而平凡的世界,
and fundamental truths.
無限的可能和基本的真理。
執導的精湛科幻電影,
of Africa's future,
執導的《你才女巫,你全家都女巫》,
(Akin Omotoso) 的《Vaya》,
of Africa's imagined and lived reality,
想像和生活現實的微妙快照,
of Africa that come from outside,
形成鮮明的對比;
that accompany all of these images,
shape or distort
persist from pictures,
對非洲的觀點,
in Ethiopia 30 years ago,
一些飢荒照片,
half a century ago.
where the average age is 17,
非洲大陸上,
seem almost prehistoric.
see themselves and their neighbors.
do not represent their reality.
不代表他們的現實。
many realities do we choose to focus on?
我們要選擇關注哪一個?
imagination of Africa in 2017
對 2017 年非洲的想像──
have seven or eight children?
都生七八個孩子的地方?
has a fertility rate as high as seven?
只有一個的生育率高達七個?
and life expectancy in Africa today
to the US a hundred years ago,
infant mortality in half
since the year 2000?
還把平均餘命提高了 10 年?
He's just wrong.
to dismiss Africa as hopeless,
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,
創新和發明,會如何呢?
that we have today?
of life and living conditions for people?
生活條件提到多高、多豐富呢?
all the knowledge we have today,
surgery techniques,
cancer research and treatment?
to modern semiconductors,
現代的半導體、
a quantum leap forward, couldn't we.
向前邁進一大步,不是嗎?
of that magnitude today.
in living conditions
向前推進一個世紀,
it's an imperative for Africa's future,
Africa's population double
in just three decades,
have the world's largest workforce,
is being radically reconsidered.
正被徹底重新思考一樣。
isn't that far-fetched.
that demonstrate the potential
working phone lines.
不到五十萬條,
mobile phone subscriptions,
is mirrored in every African country.
反映在每個非洲國家,
mobile phones in use in Africa today,
超過七億五千萬支,
excitement about leapfrogging,
artificial intelligence,
before the roads.
就要發展自動駕駛汽車。
and logical layer to innovation
對非洲的緊要程度來分配,
infrastructure gaps
have to think about them.
went off for a day,
for three hours at a time,
with electricity.
your TVs, your microwaves,
to government offices,
that hundreds of millions of Africans
widespread and affordable access
(註:可輕易實現的目標)
the hundred-year leap.
一些意想不到的好處。
of the mobile miracle
the greatest cultural resurgence
to local dominance
isn't limited just to music.
might be dated,
as does African film.
非洲的電影也是。
the rest of the world catches on,
世界其他各地追趕上來,
hard-hitting "Viva Riva!"
《Viva Riva!》,
戰爭片 《Ezra》,
poetic "Timbuktu."
(Abderrahmane Sissako) 詩意的《Timbuktu》。
more and more of these films,
這些電影,也就意味著
matters less in Kinshasa or Cotonou
(註:剛果的首都和貝南的大城)
或者他們在不在狀況內並不重要。
the "New York Times" thinks?
are validating African art and ideas,
正驗證著非洲的藝術和想法,
are connecting with their core audiences.
與核心觀眾聯繫在一起。
can illuminate and inspire.
to us here in the present.
帶來未來的願景。
as a conveyor belt for hope.
faster than we can build roads.
能比我們開路還要快。
是非洲最大的電影產業,
words and languages
and imaginations of millions
since the Berlin Conference
最有效的方式,
division across Africa.
the creativity to generate ideas
ideas from anywhere else in the world
來自世界各地的想法,
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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