MJoTA (Medical Journal of Therapeutics Africa)

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Feb 25

Financing the business plan.

Halim Majeed called me last night. He is an international money man, he zips all around Africa and the Caribbean doing financing for building projects. He was the personal assistant to the PM of Guyana in the 80s, maybe before. At that time he met world leaders, including Castro, Ghandi. I asked him if he would arrange financing for the movie; he immediately said of course! Which was a little too quick. I have not physically seen Halim since October 7, 2010, he really does zip around. He calls periodically to find out what I am doing.

In November, Halim hooked me up with Dwight Lewis in Antigua, who is from Nevis and who is a highy qualified economist. Dwight took me to lunch and we had a pleasant afternoon in his office with him explaining offshore banking and credit unions. Dwight and I chat iocassionally in Skype.

Geoff  is a long-time banker I met at the South Jersey Chamber of Commerce 4 years ago. He was ready to finance Agnes' TV network, but she could not come up with a business plan that was in any way readable. Started off with "I am a good Christian" type of nonsense. He will certainly find Jewish investors.

Two investors whose names I dont remember who were willing to put $100million into a hospital in Kenya, and wanted to put 1 billion into building a community with a university.

The Catholic Church

The Igbo community

The aviation industry

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The Last Flight: The movie

Concerns
1. Title of the movie, The Last Flight has been used several times and may be copyrighted
2. scope of the movie
     a. chronological scenes as told in the book?
     b. writing a script from the essence of the movie
3. the movie by definition is a "fictional representation of real events" which has to be because even if I make up one word of dialog, it is no longer non-fiction. Fiction is the default mode.

Feb 21
Scenes definitely needing to be included
1. the investigation of the first fatal crash when the young plot is scraping pasrts of his frend off the dials of the airplane.
2. the flight through turbulent weather that was well executed, but the US officer presses charges against the competent pilot. This gives a beautful thmbnail sketch of the international environment.

Historical footrage. I have posted some possible candidates on www.mjotatalks/org. The ones that jump ut at me are
1. the speeches of Ojukwu
2. the Irish priest saying they have to feed people early in the morning because the feeding lines were targeted by Nigerian bombers

How do I see the story unfolding?
 I am not sure yet.
On Saturday I sat with Omenihu and told him that I will have 4 or 5 200-word synopses of alternate plots to discuss with him, and you.

When I have one I like, I will include that in the business plan.

The business plan will go to you, members of the MJoTAtalks Board. I want to explore fundng from Arik, from the Nigerian aviation authority, from the Catholic Church. I also have 2 sets of investors with huge pockets.

"so why would you even CONSIDER having a woman, who doesnt even look African, write your script?"

Answer: I love Nigeria. And I rejected being white some years ago. And I am a writer, and have long had an interest in military history, and have written a lot from the point of view of those damaged by wars.

I first started going to Nigerian churches in August 2007, I went with my oldest son to a church in West Philadelphia. By the time I went to Nigeria, about a year later, I was extremely familiar with Yoruba food, Christian churches, people, and felt as soon as I stepped off the plane tat I was home.

Additionally, although my parents were English and Irish, which means British, I left the UK when I was 6 and until I moved to teh US after I finished my PhD when I was 27, I lived in subtropical countries which are still British colonies. And I learned the good and the bad of colonial rule. Mostly the bad.

Between July 2007 and April 2008 I visited Nigeria 3 times as part of her work for Medical Journal of Therapeutics Africa and her quest to eradicate all malaria from Nigeria.

These trips succeeded in me coming away with a comprehensive understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the pharmaceutical industry in Nigeria. She also succeded in producing a movie on malaria sponsored by the Univ Sci in Philadelphia, "Malaria: A Preventable Disease".

The first 2 trips (25July2007 to 15Aug 207 and 25Jan2008 to 03Feb2008) were to make contact with 2 universities in Nigeria: University of Lagos Faculty of Pharmacy and Ambrose Alli University in Edo State and to make the movie "Malaria: A Preventable Disease".

The third trip was to work in University of Lagos Faculty of Pharmacy with the former Dean and current Dean to develop courses on traditional medicine and on laws in Africa for regulating drugs for marketing, and to develop relationships with the Lagos State Minister of Health to work with international and local communities to eradicate malaria.

The university supported these trips, even set up a video and audio studo for me. Told me I was dong the only original work in the university. And then pulled the rug under my feet after Osagie called them and demanded $80K. So everything was aborted. Broke my heart. Didnt eat anythng for 3 weeks. Picked myself up and went to Kenya and started my online school. Then the economy collapsed.

The fourth and fifth trips were in 2010. I flew into Lagos for 6 days, then went to Sierra Leone for 6 weeks. When I returned to Lagos I was the guest of PC Marvel Oyanbo, police commissioner of Lagos. I visited my friends at UniLag.