The skill acquisition and youth empowerment arm of African culture and creative promoting brand, Culturati Academy has commenced registration for intakes for the 2022 vocational year.
The session will run from August to September this year.
The courses include: modeling, fashion designing, make-up, arts & crafts, catering & mixology, tourism, furniture/upholstery, leather works, hair styling, and content creation; technical courses including; software engineering, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, custom web development, product management, and product design (UI/UX) at the Culturati tech academy.
Speaking about the essence and impact of the academy since established in 2020, founder of the Academy, Idris Aregbe said: “The creative industry can conveniently accommodate African youths, endowed with a plethora of creative talents.
“The gap in the strategic needs of African countries can be bridged by well-articulated direction of the creative industry, where the energy of youths can be guided to meaningfully and sustainably contribute to socio-economic fortunes. This is the rationale behind establishment of the 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”
“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.” Aregbe averred.