The realities of this life go far beyond what we can see with our eyes, hear with our ears, smell with our noses, taste with our tongues and feel with our hands. The real issues of life go far beyond the frontiers of what we can contact with our five physical senses.
Through time, the movie as well as music medium has been doing a great job entertaining, exciting, enlightening, educating and enriching people; the movie and music medium today has become a vital part of people’s daily life. Through time also, the movies as well as television programmes people have been watching has been doing a fantastic job transferring cultures and ideologies from one part of the world to another; the way the western world systems operates and the diverse cultures of Africa are cross transferred or exchanged though the movie or television medium. People in Africa learn things about people in the western world on one hand and people in the western world learn things about people in Africa on the other hand through the movie or television medium.
Through time, we have watched and heard so many thrilling, chart bursting as well as box office hit movies and music, yet I want you to know that the movie as well as music medium is affecting or influencing our various societies across the world much deeper and intense than we really realize or know. What I am saying in essence is that the movies or television programmes people watch and music or radio programmes they listen to, apart from doing much more than entertain, excite, enlighten, educate or enrich them, have been a very strong, impressive, compelling, shaping, convincing, persuading and motivating medium.
So much has been happening in and through the movie as well as music medium that has been an ancient mystery to humanity; the movie and music industries I want you to understand goes far beyond all we have been watching or hearing and been