Dancer Kafayat Shafau popularly known as Kaffy has revealed that her biggest challenge as a dancer is getting the needed capital from investors to promote dance.
The 41-year-old made this known in a recent interview with Qed.ng.
According to Kaffy, dancers have been relegated to the bottom of the food chain and most investors worry about their productivity.
She said: “The biggest challenge would be capital. Because once you enter the entertainment passionately you end up doing the entertainment business-wise so when you want to grow the entertainment business you’re now talking capital and it’s not very easy as an entertainer as a creative to walk into a bank and say you want a loan for a business idea.
“There are a lot of structural challenges we have with our industry and a lot of uncertainties that the banking sector or the investment sectors is still wondering is it viable is it not and music just got its own break because it has been able to prove times without number that it can shake the economy so dance is getting there.
“I am here representing dance to show you that I’ve been surviving doing different services as a dancer I’ve been able to sustain body and mind together they’re bigger opportunities there.”
