How Olusola Ige Is Building a Publishing Platform for the Diaspora, One System at a Time.

On the evening of November 15, 2025, in Swansea, the room filled with spoken word, live performance, and stories that rarely get stage time. Olusola Ige watched the programme unfold with the quiet focus of someone who had imagined the moment long before it arrived. The inaugural Legacy Voice Experience drew an audience of about eighty people and put performers from underrepresented communities at the centre, by design. For Ige, this was not a one night showcase. It was proof that a platform can interrupt a pattern, especially for diaspora creatives he believes are stuck living shift to shift, working endlessly without building anything that belongs to them.

Ige’s conviction starts with a simple idea: every voice and every talent needs room for nurturing and expression in order to fulfil purpose. He traces that belief back to childhood, when writing became less of a hobby and more of a way to make sense of the world. He grew up Nigerian, carrying the familiar mix of ambition and responsibility that shapes many young people who learn early that survival and excellence often sit side by side. When he speaks about faith today, it is not performative branding. It is a framework for decision making, the source of his insistence that creativity can be both spiritually grounded and commercially serious.

Entrepreneurship arrived early. In January 2010, he built his first business in Nigeria, Edibles and More, a food condiments company that forced him to learn pricing, operations, customer expectations, and the reality that passion does not replace process. Four years later, he published an independent work and discovered what direct distribution can do for a creator who cannot wait for permission. That lesson stayed with him. It helped explain why, years later, he would spend time mapping workflows and modular plans for publishing long before he had the public spotlight to match the ambition. In 2018, he expanded into technology through Future World Technology, an end to end ICT business. He describes that period as a crash course in systems thinking: how to design repeatable delivery, how to reduce chaos, and how to build for scale rather than for applause.

Those skills became the spine of his creative ventures. Tecknowlogy, incorporated in the UK in December 2023, sits at the intersection of faith, product design, and commerce. On LinkedIn, the company describes itself as a faith driven brand producing scripture infused accessories that turn everyday tools into reminders of spiritual identity, supported by an ecommerce platform and a developing digital devotional ecosystem. Mindful Ink followed, incorporated in October 2024 as an active UK company whose registered activities cover book publishing and video production. Public descriptions of Mindful Ink emphasise more than books: publishing, animation, and video production, built around storytelling that can educate and engage across age groups. 

What matters about this timeline is not the number of ventures. It is the logic connecting them. Ige keeps returning to the same problem from different angles: creators often produce in isolation, then burn out, then start again. His response is to build infrastructure around creativity, so ideas can move from inspiration to output to distribution without relying on luck. He began formalising that approach in late 2022, when he started designing scalable publishing systems and planning multi title launches. In May 2024, he secured hybrid publishing partnerships, aiming to combine independent accessibility with broader reach. By October 2025, he had finalised a strategic roadmap for a twenty title push in 2026, complete with marketing funnels, resourcing plans, and distribution thinking.

The Legacy Voice Experience is the most public expression of that strategy so far. Reporting on the Swansea launch framed it as part of a long term effort to tie creativity to community regeneration and inclusivity, positioning the city as a place where underrepresented voices can shape cultural identity rather than just perform inside it. Ige has described the initiative as “a movement to build cultural legacy and inspire pride of place.” And when he needed support to keep building, he tested the strength of his community in real time. A crowdfunding campaign for the project recorded twenty six supporters and closed as successfully funded in late December 2025. The amount raised was modest, but the signal was not. People will back a clear mission when they can see what it produces.

Ige’s playbook is grounded in a few repeatable principles. He builds platforms, not moments. A book release, a product drop, an event, or a video can create attention, but a platform turns attention into continuity. He also designs systems before scale forces the issue. Many founders wait for traction, then scramble to organise. His approach reverses that order: map the workflow, standardise what can be standardised, then invite others in. He treats faith as an operating system. That shows up in the way Tecknowlogy frames its products and in the way he talks about purpose driven work as something that must still meet the market with excellence. Most importantly, he insists on ownership for underrepresented creatives, particularly in the diaspora. In his view, the cost of staying only a consumer of opportunity is a life of constant labour with little legacy to show for it.

What comes next is an expansion of the same idea: more titles, more distribution, and more spaces where diaspora talent can meet visibility and structure at the same time. The twenty title publishing push planned for 2026 will test whether his systems can carry volume without losing quality, and whether community led cultural work can sustain itself beyond a strong debut. If Ige succeeds, his story will offer a reminder that creativity becomes power when it is paired with process, and that purpose travels further when it is built into something that can outlive its founder. 

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About Olusola Ige: Olusola Ige is a Nigeria born founder and creative director building faith inspired platforms that blend storytelling, commerce, and technology to empower underrepresented voices across Africa, the UK, and the diaspora. Through Mindful Ink, he is developing a publishing and creative production ecosystem designed to help creators move from raw talent to structured output, distribution, and ownership. Through Tecknowlogy, he explores how creativity, product, and digital systems can work together to strengthen purpose led work in modern markets. He is also the founder of The Legacy Voice Experience, a UK based platform created to amplify diaspora creatives through live experiences, community connection, and cultural storytelling.

Olusola Ige website: https://olusolaige.com/ Mindful Ink: https://mindfulink.org/ Tecknowlogy: https://tecknowlogy.company/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/honourable_ige/ LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/olusola-ige-508968a3