00:00Here in Ijora Badia, one of Lagos' most waterlogged slum communities.
00:04Art isn't just a subject in class, it is survivor.
00:08And behind me are children learning inside a school built on water.
00:14Each painting they hold tells a story, not of what they've lost, but of what they are becoming.
00:20In a place where flood water and death define the landscape,
00:25these kids are to redefine what is possible, turning trash into color and paint into purpose.
00:32Leading this change is one man, Adetowaji Adinle, is an artist, a teacher, and guess what?
00:39A four-time Guinness World Record holder.
00:42He's painted the biggest artwork ever, got thousands of kids to read and wash their hands at the same time,
00:50and even created Nigeria's biggest stamp.
00:55For him, art isn't just about painting, it's about people, community, and change.
01:02It's a free school, so they don't pay for education.
01:05So I encourage them, I move them, I've guided them towards abstract art,
01:10which comes out looking very beautiful.
01:13And by the time they are done with one artwork, it's something we help them, we frame it,
01:18we sell it, and we bring in the funds to continue what they do in this space here.
01:24And that's how we've been able to sustain what we do.
01:26Before I joined the Slomad, I didn't know I could draw or mix a collage like this.
01:31But now, I can do it and teach the kids.
01:34I'm very happy.
01:36Adetowaji's patients didn't stop at collage.
01:38When classrooms were scarce, he and the community turned waste into walls.
01:43Building a school from thousands of recycled plastic bottles,
01:48each bottle is packed tight and placed inside wired iron to become a strong reusable brick.
01:55Layer by layer, the walls rise.
01:58Shaping not just a classroom, but a space where imagination and learning come alive.
02:05For the top layer, what we use majorly is metal cage and wire gruss.
02:10The wire run XO, XO, XO.
02:13After having them X and O, what we now do is we now use just ropes.
02:18They're normal word ropes.
02:19So tie each one of these, actually.
02:22So we tie it together so that the roofing will be insulated one.
02:27And it's been insulated also means that it helps to beautify the beef.
02:33If you come here at night, what is it?
02:34This will be littered.
02:36Oh, I see.
02:36Yeah, it will be littered.
02:37So when you are here at evening time, it's something that just amazes you.
02:41You also have the animation studio.
02:44Yes.
02:45Now you're moving from paint to pixel, right?
02:49And your growth is very, very obvious.
02:52Why animation now?
02:53So there was an issue that happened when we started this whole animation production.
02:58When we wanted to do the Nigerian history in 2014, when it was a Cincinnati celebration.
03:05And we wanted to put together 50 3D animators here in Lagos.
03:11We made call for entries multiple times.
03:15And we could not get cogent good animators to come to us today to join the production.
03:21From paint to pixels, the dream keeps growing.
03:25With the animation hub, Andetua Shea is shaping the new generation of storytellers.
03:30Aiming to bring 1 million Nigerian children into the world of digital creativity.
03:37We decided to break the 12 principles of animation into a realistic, achievable, smart goal.
03:44Where young people can work remotely, learn animation and how to use their mobile phone to create sequence.
03:53And as an animation hub, where people can join the creative process from their remote location.
04:02Tune in.
04:04And they make a sequence.
04:06So in our own case, we have the idea of Nigerian story in mind.
04:09So we put it into chat GBT to give us a script of all the events and happening from a
04:16certain year down to the current year.
04:18So once we have that script, we now take it to another AI tool, that is Sora, to generate images
04:26of these particular events.
04:29Now from Sora, we take it into Hylio or Perplexity or any other AI that generates image to video.
04:38So after we've generated all these images and videos, we now add it up in CapCuts that make a whole
04:46full movie.
04:47We've seen a lot of AI apps and softwares across the websites.
04:53What are you bringing that is different from the ones that we already have?
04:57So the major problem we've seen is people understanding how to write the right prompts, how to be able to
05:04generate the right characters, how to create continuity.
05:07Language models have been biased.
05:10You train your models.
05:12It's our core to train these models in our own language.
05:17And that's what we're bringing in.
05:18That's what we're bringing in.
05:18The first AI factory in Africa itself.
05:23And this is going to have a 1,000 megawatt where we'll now start training multiple models, training our own
05:29language models, training them on how we look, we speak, we dress, what our culture is.
05:37Adetowash's dream keeps multiplying in color, in courage, and in hope.
05:42Now it is reaching for the fifth Guinness World Record, a milestone that could inspire a million more dreams.
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