Nigeria's creative industries have long mistaken individual brilliance for systemic strength, celebrating Grammy wins and Netflix premieres while the scaffolding behind them quietly crumbles. Shola Bamidele, who runs a creative hub in Lagos's Egbeda neighborhood, argues that a nation cannot build a lasting economy on the resilience of its artists alone — it must build the institutions, legal frameworks, and financial systems that allow talent to compound across generations. The question Nigeria now faces is not whether it can produce more stars, but whether it is willing to do the slower, less