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As the heading of this write-up is staring you in the face, it does clearly, more than explaining to you, dear esteemed reader and friend that this publication is a work started in the past, and therefore, a continuation of an earlier publication.
Please, note that the earlier publication was on your darling Platform, the Scoreline.
In the midst of staring you directly in the face, reminding and explaining to you where the journey of this piece began, the heading does something else, which is, tasking, agitating, stirring and stimulating your mind to take a definite position or stand in support of its claim that beliefs are harder to shake than knowledge.
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Let me ask what is your stand or position on the axiom presented above?
To address the major issue generated by the age long claim or assertion, I will be doing that by inviting the reader to journey with me for a while, and to please confine the already stimulated, agitated and or stirred mind; tasking it to limit its scope of operation within the context of the African Film Institute in Jos, and the skills acquisition training, currently going on in Jos, Plateau state.
The reason for the appeal is simple, this piece seeks to shade light on the noble activities of the African Film Institute in Plateau state, and using it particularly, as the instrument to empower the mind, and give it a clearer direction, fundamentally. This same instrument will be deployed to address the issue that is associated with the age long claim, presented alongside the heading of this piece.
Thoughts precede action, as well as give it form or shape, power and direction, and help in guiding the mind to releasing into the physical space, real benefits, for the good of man and other earth inhabitants, or losses, regrets and pain in the contrary. This reasoning and the likes gave birth to this discourse.
In that reasoning and others like it, as already noted above, are some of the forces necessary for liberating the many enslaved minds, among them trainees of the ongoing skills acquisition training programme in Jos, and numerous other people located at various places reading this piece.
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Strengthening the minds of such people is key for the purpose of deploying them systematically, for the greater works of creating a shift and opening up the socio-economic space of Plateau state and the rest 35 states of Nigeria, for massive job creation activities, wealth generation and empowerment.
Facing or moving closely, in the direction above, is highly necessary for all the AFI trainees and their likes. It will, in no small measure, assuage, at least a little, the hunger and thirst of the African Film Institute, whose desire, surely, has been that such a transformational change as a matter of fact happens and very soon.
This above position of mine, explains in brief, why the institute is expending much energy and other resources to build the capacity of its trainees.
Leaning and learning from submissions above, there is no denying the fact that the target of this piece is the peoples' mindset, and the goal the reward that the liberated minds will attract, while the direct beneficiaries are the participants of the ongoing skill acquisition training in Jos, and the indirect beneficiaries are the many other people that will not only read, but put the mind to work, effectively.
I noted also in the previous publication that the claim or assertion "Beliefs are harder to shake than knowledge" runs contrary to what I have observed or know about the approach of the African Film Institute in human capacity development.
Such awareness of mine about the AFI, though, may be considered little, scanty or minimal, however, it is enough for me to conclude as I did that the AFI, does not align with the basic assumption "Beliefs are harder to shake than knowledge". I habour no trepidations of any kind in making this conclusion.
Following closely, the activities of the AFI, especially, the ongoing training on Film Making and Creative Media Production, from introductory Phase to the Special Practical Phase, it is quite obvious to me that the institute is positioned to liberate the minds of its trainees and release into the public space, informed table shakers, Pathfinders and builders.
From every indication, the AFI in Jos has demonstrated its commitment to raising not just capable, but informed and skillful, functional and competent, vastly aware and diligent individuals into the market arena as the direct output (products) of her trainings.
On the strength of my observations so far, as has been clearly enunciate in both the present and previous reports, I consider it necessary to paraphrase the axiomatic expression that forms the base of this discource. To this end, the below is here presented:
Beliefs and knowledge are harder to shake.
Think and relate...
Next publication will make it clearer
Nnabugwu Chizoba
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https://www.belfordscorelines.com/2025/12/film-making-and-creative-media.html?m=1
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