The management of Culturati Academy on Sunday disclosed that plans have been concluded to empower young creatives across Africa, particularly Nigerians with an investment scheme.
According to the management, the academy will be introducing an investment scheme for creative, dedicated, and focused graduates ready to ignite their entrepreneurial journey.
The founder of the academy, Idris Aregbe, in a statement, explained that the scheme was designed to help young creatives in contributing meaningfully to the country’s development.
“This scheme has been set to finance graduates of the academy begin their trade, with the ultimate goal to identify, develop and equip creative talents amongst youths to make them productive economic agents and financially independent, thus help them contribute meaningfully to the economic development of their communities,” he said.
Continuing he said, “The period of time youths waste before and even after the university, usually exploited by vices, could be eliminated by concerted effort at strategically positioning the creative industry to absorb their creative energy.
“While it takes at least 4 years to get a university degree, and possibly more years to get a job, young people could become vibrant economic agents in less than 1 year, positively contributing to the economy with a dynamic creative industry. With economic power, they can afford their school fees and study much more conveniently. The positive ripple effects are just tremendous.”
Announcing the commencement of registration for intakes for the 2022 vocational year, Aregbe maintained that the session set to run from August to September 2022 will be offering different courses.
He listed those on offering to include modeling, fashion designing, make-up, arts & crafts, catering & mixology, tourism, furniture/upholstery, leather works, hair styling, content creation, and other liberal courses.
Others, which he said are technical courses, include software engineering, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, custom web development, product management, and product design (UI/UX) at the Culturati Tech Academy.
“The rationale behind Culturati Academy is essentially on exploring how the strong potentials of African youths can be modulated and accelerated on the back of culture towards socio-economic development,” Aregbe said.
