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“To hold an iPhone is to hold a stage, a store, a studio, a future.”

 
By Prof. MarkAnthony Nze
Investigative Journalist | Public Intellectual | Global Governance Analyst | Health & Social Care Expert

Prologue: The Camera in Your Pocket

Cinema once belonged to the few. It required cranes, crews, studios, and budgets that dwarfed the dreams of ordinary people. Stories were filtered through institutions, controlled by financiers, and mediated by distributors. To create a film was to climb a mountain guarded by gatekeepers.

That age is over. The iPhone has turned the mountain into a sidewalk. Today, the same …