“EcobankPay, Terrakulture partnership will create jobs, promote culture”- Patrick Akinwuntan

The Managing Director of Ecobank Nigeria, Mr Patrick Akinwuntan, has stated that the EcobankPay’s recent partnership with Terrakulture would create jobs, further rekindle and engender interest in watching stage plays and derive learning points from history and rich culture that will be showcased through the shows.

EcobankPay, the lifestyle digital payment and collections service of the bank, recently entered into a partnership with TerraKulture, Nigeria’s foremost stage play and cultural show promoters with Bolanle-Austen Peters as lead. Through this partnership, Ecobank intends to support the promotion of African arts and culture starting from this month. For each festive season,  there will be a theatrical production – April coinciding with the Easter celebrations; October season to correspond with the nation’s independence anniversary and December season end of year festivities.

Speaking on the partnership,  Akinwuntan said: “As pan-African bank, Ecobank is pleased to partner with a renowned African culture promoter– TerraKulture- to achieve our collective vision of promoting indigenous African plays to reinforce knowledge of and also celebrate our history, culture and values. As we continue to leverage Ecobankpay and Ecobank Xpresspoint Agency to bring convenient and easy banking to every household, creating jobs and facilitating trade, we are also proud to be at the forefront of the renaissance of African culture and history. The Queen Moremi musical stage play planned for the Easter season will increase knowledge of our culture and history thereby deepening our sense of pride as a people. This is the in line with the vision of our founders and endearing to our customers and stakeholders.

Also commenting, CEO, TerraKulture, Bolanle-Austen Peters in her statement said: we are passionate about creating partnerships and advancing the Nigerian and African narrative ourselves. There is no stronger brand than Ecobank to project that Pan African image that we all so clearly want to identify with. This is a step in the right direction and we hope through this Ecobank will  add more jobs and also improve the quality of life of Nigerians”.

TerraKulture show brought to life the story of Queen Moremi, the 12th-century tale of a brave woman leading the charge to save her people in Ile-Ife. Put together by TerraKulture and Rejuvenee, ‘Queen Moremi: The Musical’ is a stage play that celebrates the legacy of the feminine hero. The stage play has a strong cast of Bimbo Manuel, Femi Branch, Deyemi Okanlawon, Lala Akindoju among others.