- Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, the vice president of Ghana, and Idris Elba, a well-known British superstar, met to discuss how to grow Africa’s creative economy.
- The Vice President in charge of digitalization said on Facebook that the meeting’s objective depended on including Ghana’s creative sector and coming up with plans to include it into the global financial system.
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Today, I met with celebrated actor, Idris Elba and his team, and we had a meaningful dialogue on the dynamic and expanding creative arts economy of Africa. Our focus was on the financial inclusion of Ghanaian creative arts and devising strategies to integrate them into the worldwide financial ecosystem.
Many African industry players are locked out of the global payments ecosystem and we therefore discussed the proposed implementation of a new system leveraging blockchain technology to assist them and ensure that they get paid for their music and arts no matter where in the world it is used commercially.
Given Ghana’s relatively advanced system of digital payments, the new system is expected to be launched in Ghana later this year. My thanks to Idris Elba for his commitment to the development of the African creative arts economy.