Communiqué 42: Big Cabal Media is in its Apple era
Apple has reinvented itself over the years with some success and failure. The Lagos-based media company is following a similar trajectory.
1. Shoot for the moon
“We would have failed our people and the future generation if we sleep on artificial intelligence because these are a set of technologies that will control what you think, how you think, and how you do everything.” One year into his tenure as Nigeria’s Minister of Information, Communication, and Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani, was giving a passionate defense of his AI-first policy approach during a fireside chat with Tomiwa Aladekomo, CEO of Big Cabal Media (BCM), at Moonshot, a tech conference organized in Lagos, Nigeria.
The previous year, Bosun Tijani had used the maiden edition of the conference as the platform to explain his strategy to train three million young Nigerians in technical skills. Moonshot was the perfect opportunity for him. There, in the air-conditioned halls of the Eko Convention Centre, hundreds of stakeholders had gathered to discuss the most pressing issues in the count…
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