BLESSING ENENAITENothing inspired my love for the arts. I just grew up loving the arts. I did not know what else to do and nothing came to my mind aside from what I am doing now.One has to get into the industry to look up to people in the industry. What attracted me was the fact that I love the arts. I got into it and saw people like Hubert Ogunde, Fela Kuti, Bob Marley.
Second, I kept my nose out of the business part of it. That is not to say that people should keep their nose out of the business part of the arts because one would pay for it. Business is all about gains all the time but more focus should be on what lifts one’s soul and what one is passionate about. That has been the main stay because if I consider the money, it is not all the time that money is in the cards. Things can be so dry on some days.
In the past, people who were involved in the arts were not taken too seriously unlike now. What would you say caused a change in the narrative? Those in the profession then paid the price although people did not say good things about them then. The females were considered as prostitutes in the eyes of society, while the males were seen as lazy people who could not do anything except dancing and the likes. But, those people then kept at what they did. My generation complains of challenges but the previous generation had their challenges too. During their time, there was no social media. Now, everything has a gadget.
Back then, we did not have any performance spaces except National Theatre, University of Lagos, Law School and Muson Centre. Those were the only upper echelon spaces. However, there is change today with places like Terra Kulture, and various art practitioners joining the industry. What we need now is finance to make their works into something befitting. We need more of those performance spaces.The way we practise our arts is attached to the intellectual tradition of our ancestors.
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