SekiZheemKulture Marketplace has announced plans to build a $5 billion cultural economy in the Niger Delta, targeting 500,000 culturepreneurs through expanded market access for traditional crafts, festivals, cultural heritage and creative industries. The initiative aims to bring together cultural practitioners across 50 tribes, connect a network of 500 festivals and showcase five million wetland heritage commodities. Organisers stressed that these figures represent long-term targets and revenue ambitions, not funds already generated or investments secured. A key component of the proposal is a 50-day cultural activation scheduled to run between November and...