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""When they first see the game they know that it's actually African and it looks good...There is a lack of African games in the global market.""

Dawit Abraham, Qene Technologies on its 3D mobile game Kukula, an African game to conquer the world

Dawit Abraham, CEO and Co-Founder, Qene Technologies talks about: Eithiopia’s first mobile 3D game; the number of downloads and where they’ve come from; how many downloaders paid for the premium version of the game; and its ambitions to do more games.

October 25, 2018 by Editor
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"Revenue share with mobile operators:"Every other part of the world the mobile operators get 15-30%. But in Nigeria's it's the other way round.""

Aibee Abidoye, 5ive Music on the challenges facing mobile music services in Nigeria

Aibee Abidoye,  General Manager, 5ive Music talks about: 5ive Music’s role as a distribution platform; the artists it has on the platform; the mobile operators it is working with; the regulatory issues it faces on pricing; and continuing issues around the revenue share with operators.

August 16, 2018 by Editor
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""We're looking at a personalised dating experience. In our culture we're very what's your job, what do you do, etc. People do want to get married and we'll definitely be honing in on that""

Dayo Akinrinade & Ray AjikeAjoke on start-up Africlick, a dating app for global Africans

Dayo Akinrinade, Founder and Ray AjikeAjoke, Head of Growth, Africlick talk about: why Dayo Akinrinade launched Africlick; how the app works, the business model for the app and its functionalities; the potential size of the market; the balance of users between Lagos and London; and raising investment.

July 25, 2018 by Editor
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""It's fully local comedy talent and lots of ad-lib. They're now very big commedians. The show has made them big.""

Abdulai Awudu, Multi TV on its TV comedy show Kejetia vs Makola

Abdulai Awudu, General Manager, Multi TV talks about: how the idea transferred from one of its radio stations; how it has built local comedy talent; what the show’s set-up is; its audience ratings; and its impact on social media.

June 20, 2018 by Editor
Tags: TV Comedy Ghana
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""Kasala is a story about brotherhood. It's about 4 young boys who steal thir uncle's car, take it to a party and wreck it. They have to raise the money to fix the car.""

Ema Edosio on her new film Kasala! about 4 slum brothers who wreck their Uncle’s car

Director Ema Edosio talks about: her new film Kasala!; the story of brotherhood in the film; the actors in the film; the lack of a distribution deal; her next film project; and the barriers faced by Nollywood film-makers.

June 6, 2018 by Editor
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""Either they're producing content for TV commercials or they're producing special effects for films or viral content, short films for thje internet.""

Mbuotidem Johnson, Animation Nigeria on the type of animation work being made in Nigeria

Mbuotidem Johnson, Chief Co-ordinator, Animation Nigeria talks about: what Animation Nigeria is; what kind of animation work studios in Nigeria do; and his own company Basement Animation.

April 10, 2018 by Editor
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""Compared to the other girls we were teaching she was above and beyond what we expected of girls in the rural areas.""

Raymond Honu, Soronko Academy on storytelling, 360 deg cameras and the education of a rural girl

Raymond Honu, Soronko Academy talks about: teaching young people tech skills; the experience of a rural young girl called Patience in one of its workshops; a diversion about Yaa Asantewaa; and how 360 degree cameras can be used for education.

March 13, 2018 by Editor
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""She loses a child she wasn't expecting to have and suddenly she has to identify who she is and ask herself hard questions about what it means to be a woman.""

Carol Kioko on how Kenya-South African film co-productions work with some examples

Kenyan film-maker, producer and director Carol Kioko talks about: the slate of 5 films being co-produced between South Africa and Kenya; the stories in two of them, one about a losing South African football team and the other about a single mother; her own projects, a short and a feature film; and issues around women’s identity in the media.

February 17, 2018 by Editor
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""There's a movement for female DJs. It was started by a female DJ in Uganda, DJ Rachael. The scene is a bit male crowded and there's this idea of promoting women DJs.""

Beth Achitsa: How Ongea promotes East African musicians to festival bookers

Beth Achitsa, Ongea talks about: what music industry event Ongea is and what it does; her role as a tour booker and the acts she’s been booking this year (2017); the relationship between pop music and the roots of African music; the rise of Nairobi Underground and promoting women DJs.

January 20, 2018 by Editor
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""It's about two doctors, one is doing conventional Western medicine, the other is a handsome man, doing traditional African healing.""

Angela Aquereburu, YoBo Studios on her dramedy Hospitalite about a doctor and a traditional healer

Angela Aquerebu, Yobo Studios talks about her comedy drama Hospitalite; the story about the tension between the doctor and the traditional healer in the series; where the series can be seen; and its forthcoming project with a French broadcaster.

December 16, 2017 by Editor
Tags: Comedy TV
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""Vaya is based on and inspired by the lives of those in the Homeless Writers Project.""

Akin Omotoso on his two new films Vaya and A Hotel Called Memory

Film-maker Akin Omotoso talks about: the three intertwined stories in the film Vaya; the Homeless Writers Project out of which it came; his silent film, tone poem A Hotel Called Memory; and his fortcoming documentary The Colour of Wine about the transition from Apartheid seen through the perspective of 4 Black pioneers in the wine industry.

November 12, 2017 by Editor
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""We have authors who are making anything from N20-30,000 per month. Some we have paid out in chunks up to N0.5 million.""

Okechukwu Ofili on e-publishing start-up Okada Books, its authors, readers and raising funds

Founder Okechukwu Ofili, Okada Books talks about: why he set up Okada Books; the kinds of readers who are using the platform; the success of self-published romantic and erotic novels; the kinds of authors he wants to attract in the future; and his fundraising round.

October 3, 2017 by Editor
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""It was an extraordinary time when you could cross all the boundaries in a racially segregated environment.""

Willie Currie: His comic novel Blue Eland Foxtrot on apartheid & eerie present day parallels

Author Willie Currie talks about: his novel Blue Eland Foxtrot; the story in the novel and its autobiographical aspects; the impact of the UDF; whether Afrikaans nationalism was a cousin of Nazism; and the eerie parallels between apartheid and the present day Government.

August 11, 2017 by Editor
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""The collection of poetry is called On About The Same Old Things..There's four movements: Politics, Love, Faith and Family.""

Katlego on her collection of poems that question what’s normal in terms of gender

Katlego K Kolanyane-Kesupile talks about: his collection of poems On About the Same Old Things and the different topics they cover; why he never identified as either a girl or a boy; how he regards being normal; and his ambition to change the world.

May 25, 2017 by Editor
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""NAICCON is our version of Comic Con or MCM London, or any other version of a pop culture event and we're doing it (here) in Kenya.""

Thomas Imboywa, NAICCON on Kenya’s comic culture and its Nairobi Comic Convention

Thomas Imboywa, Naiccon talks about: what Nairobi Comic Convention is and how many visitors it attracts; the kind of comics being produced locally; and an app to help comic makers distribute their work.

April 26, 2017 by Editor
Tags: comics Kenya
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