THE EXOPA Modeling Agency, after operating in Ghana for about a
year-and-a-half or two has moved on to another level with the setting
up of a multi-million cedi school facility to improve the modeling
industry in Ghana.

This is to help train wannabe models who have not got the opportunity or platform to explore the field. Situated adjacent the Ghana International Trade Fair Center, the school is scheduled to officially open on September 1, this year.

From August 2 to 15, would-be models are expected
to start picking up registration forms. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Beatwaves, Sima Ibrahim, CEO of Exopa said the school became necessary because he had discovered there were a lot of untapped model talents in Ghana.

“Exopa started five years ago in Germany. Three years later I came down to Ghana to look around.

I have realized it is quiet here in the fashion and model industry.
However there are a lot of talented models in Ghana that they themselves did not even know they have talents. So I thought with my experience I can change things.

I set up Exopa and our first show on TV3 during the Ghana @ 50 celebrations woke a lot of people up about what modeling and fashion was.

So six months after, I decided to build the school to train more models,” he said.

According to Sima, with the standard Exopa has set so far, the school would further help improve the fashion and modeling business.

Learning how to model, he continued, was not purposely for the stage or runway but also to help one carry him or herself very well during public occasions among other reasons including marketing products.

“For instance, when you are late for a party and you do not know how to walk through to your seat, learning how to model will help you handle such a situation with an aura of ease,” he indicated.

The school, he noted, would be opened for everybody including kids, whom he said by the time of reaching 10 or 12 years, might have known all the modules of modeling. Registered wannabes would be taken through six weeks courses after which they would be given certificates.

“We will make sure that you know what it takes to be a model as pertains in other schools anywhere around the globe,” he added, stressing that models who after the course would like to stay with Exopa could do so.