Barring any last minutes changes, Creative Industry Guide, CIG is set to debut in Nigeria, Angola, Kenya, Rwanda, Zambia and Zimbabwe before the end of the year. This is even as a rallying call has gone out for serious partners to collaborate with the company.
The CIG, a special creative industries book is targeted at promoting the holistic creative sectors and creative economy in Africa and is published every year in hard copy and electronically (Online) in each African Country that has or will launch it. The guide contextualizes the creative economy through featured industry insights from local experts, including a comprehensive listing of creative companies, organizations and professionals ranging from architecture to visual arts.
The guide is listed as an invaluable resource, showcasing the contribution and direction of the cultural and creative industries as major drivers of the economies of developed as well as developing countries.
According to Nocks Chatiza, a representative of the Creative Industry Guide, it has become imperative to partner with companies or professional individuals who understand the creative sectors to further propagate the creative sector in Africa.
“We are currently working on launching the Creative Industry Guide this year, 2020, in Nigeria, Angola, Kenya, Rwanda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The project is at different stages of preparations in other countries and we are still negotiating with other partners in different African countries to facilitate the logistics of establishing the CIG in their respective countries in 2020 or 2021. We are actually looking for serious partners in other African countries where we haven’t launched it, either a company to license or a professional individual who understand the creative sectors to partner with our company. The Company or individual will have to establish a partnership or work with the National Arts Council of their respective country or the respective Government departments responsible for administering and regulating the Arts and Creative Sectors in that respective jurisdiction” Nocks said in a statement sent to The Culture Newspaper.
The company further issued a call to interested individuals and companies to forge a collaboration with the company
“If you have or know anyone with the capacity to facilitate our coming to establish the Creative Industry Guide in your country, we will be more than happy to put it on the list to launch the CIG in your country this year 2020. We will give you all the information required to start the process of engaging the National Arts Council and other relevant stakeholders in your country” he said.