{"id":457621,"date":"2018-01-23T12:30:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T12:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/23\/creative-arts-has-potential-to-beat-manufacturing-sector-afeku\/"},"modified":"2018-01-23T12:30:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T12:30:27","slug":"creative-arts-has-potential-to-beat-manufacturing-sector-afeku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/23\/creative-arts-has-potential-to-beat-manufacturing-sector-afeku\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative arts has potential to beat manufacturing sector \u2013 Afeku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Tuesday, 23 January 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-01-23<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/73955255.295.jpg\" alt=\"Afeku 33\" title=\"Afeku 33\" width=\"295\" height=\"196\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Catherine Afeku<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813995117\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813995117\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1516710627_127_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Catherine Ablema Afeku foresees the creative arts sector outperforming the manufacturing sector if the potential is fully harnessed.<\/p>\n<p>The sector she noted, has seen an appreciable expansion over the years and has maintained its position as the fourth foreign exchange earner for the country after gold, cocoa and oil.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister made the remarks during an interview with Kojo YAnkson on the Super Morning Show on Joy FM, Tuesday, January 23, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>She said despite the considerable growth the sector has been enjoying, the lack of a database which will form the bases for sustainable investment in the arts, is a major drawback.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, the Ministry is offering support to the Creative Arts Secretariat to gather the necessary \u201cdata out there so they can work with\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sector is expanding\u2026and we need to get the database,\u201d Mrs. Afeku stressed.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cThe nation doesn\u2019t see arts and creativity as a viable economic activity\u2026but it\u2019s a billion dollar industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do believe that arts can create more jobs than the manufacturing [sector], we believe strongly because we\u2019ve seen it in other countries. It is a low hanging fruit but it must be mainstreamed. 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The sector she noted, has seen an appreciable expansion over the years and has maintained its position as the fourth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":457622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}