WITTY GLOBAL BLOGS | THURSDAY FLAGSHIP EDITION Africa's $2 Billion Creative Economy Financing Push: What Nigerian Filmmakers, Musicians and Digital Creators Need to Know By Itoro Uwah | Thursday, November 12, 2026 CREATIVE ECONOMY | BUSINESS | TECHNOLOGY | INVESTMENT LAGOS, NIGERIA — Africa's creative economy is attracting renewed attention from development financiers and policymakers, following the Creative Africa Nexus (CANEX) WKND 2026 gathering in Lagos from November 5 to 8. Organised by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and hosted by Nigeria, the gathering brought together creative entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers and cultural-industry professionals to explore financing, intellectual property, technology and market access. Afreximbank's CANEX financing ambition has expanded to $2 billion, reflecting a growing institutional effort to support African cultural and creative enterprises. However, the figure must be understood correctly...
Why Patience Is Strategic Power
Day 19 — Institutional Thinking Series | BEFOCUS
The Misunderstanding of Patience
Patience is often misunderstood.
Many people associate patience with weakness or passivity.
They believe patience means doing nothing.
But patience is not weakness.
Patience is discipline.
The Nature of Growth
Great builders understand something many people ignore.
Meaningful achievements require time.
Seeds do not become trees overnight.
Systems do not mature instantly.
Institutions are built through repeated effort across long periods.
The Danger of Impatience
Impatience destroys many ambitions.
People abandon their work before results appear.
They change direction too quickly.
They chase quick rewards instead of lasting impact.
When impatience controls decisions, progress becomes unstable.
The Strategic Strength of Patience
Strategic patience protects long-term vision.
It allows systems to mature.
It allows processes to repeat.
It allows progress to compound.
This is why institutions succeed.
They protect the time required for growth.
Impatience reacts. Patience builds.
Africa does not lack ambition or talent.
What Africa needs is disciplined patience capable of building institutions that endure across generations.
— Itoro Uwah
BEFOCUS | Institutional Thinking Series
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