‘We’re not waiting anymore’: Media mogul Mo Abudu opens a new hub for African cinema in London

The idea has probably been buried in my subconsciousness for the longest time. I know how important it is for stories to travel. I know how important it is for culture to travel. And I just felt that we needed to have a destination point to where this culture could travel to. And that's really what got me started on this journey. We have consumed so much of the world. How much of the world has consumed us? And I'm not waiting anymore for anyone to take a six-hour trip from London to understand what it is to watch a Nigerian film, to watch a Nigerian film or to see Nigerian fashion and so on and so forth. It's right here in London, ten years from now. We shouldn't be here saying this is the first black cinema, which it is. years from now it should just be there's another cinema there should be several others you know opening um so cinemas you know culture hubs food fashion art bringing it all together absolutely