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Communiqué 88: The publishing company behind Femi Otedola’s bestselling book
Chude Jideonwo’s new fund for African creators + Silverbacks’ investment in Zimbabwe fashion exports
Communiqué 87: Archiving wants to interrupt Nigeria’s historical patterns of repetition
Joburg, it’s your turn! Communiqué is coming to your city 🇿🇦
South Africa eyes creator earnings + Ghana’s biggest bank wants TikTok payouts
Communiqué 86: What went wrong with Fusion Intelligence’s community cinema experiment
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Nigeria maps its creator economy + Morocco’s film industry reset
Rwanda’s big bets on sports + YouTube woos Nollywood
Communiqué 85: Crea8torium wants to be the classroom for African creators
Offscript with Temitope “Oluwadabest” Dada
Communiqué’s first East African event + Twitch cuts off Kenyan monetisation
Communiqué 84: Why Mediamax, the Kenyatta family’s media jewel, is fighting for its life
Fresh faces at the helm of the Nigerian state broadcaster + DStv’s podcast bumps
Communiqué 83: Wetalksound wants to be Afrobeats’ Rocnation
DStv’s license on the line in Ghana + Egypt turns up the heat on TikTok
Communiqué 82: Filmhouse takes a third stab at streaming
New ideas for old problems in Nollywood + Helios’s $75M fund for Africa’s entertainment market
Nairobi, Communiqué is coming to your city! 🇰🇪
Communiqué 81: Beyond brand deals, African creators are building scalable product businesses
Nollywood gets a new streamer + Paramount Africa’s impending shutdown
Communiqué 80: Fusion Intelligence’s bet on urban community cinemas
South Africa wants global streamers to pay up + Kenya’s media houses keep bleeding out
Communiqué 79: Sporty TV wants to make live sports free for all Africans
Multichoice’s foray into games + Nigeria’s push to preserve its film history
Communiqué 78: Late-night raves are powering the next phase of Lagos’s creative economy
Morocco wants its cultural artifacts to stay home + Big Cabal Media’s cinematic ambitions
Communiqué 77: MDIF is quietly saving independent media, and we need more of it
Kenya flirts with censorship again + Francophone Africa’s streaming race heats up
Communiqué 76: What would you do with a billion dollars?
Billboard’s plan to map African music + the messy business of skit making in Nigeria
Communiqué 75: Media as a means to an end
Why MultiChoice needs Canal+, and Kenya craves a piece of the U.S.’s $1 trillion creative economy
Communiqué 74: The reinvention of Nigeria’s national TV broadcaster
Why Netflix hiked its prices in Nigeria for the third time since 2024
Communiqué 73: The making of an African cinematic universe
Downtown follows Universal and Warner Music’s footsteps in Africa
Communiqué 72: Comic Republic wants to be Africa’s Marvel
Multichoice finds a new owner + Nigeria steps onto the Cannes stage
Communiqué 71: Can newsletters become a viable media business in Africa?
Dangote eyes tourism + regulators gun for South Africa’s podcasting sector
Communiqué 70: Maybe podcasts can scale in Africa after all
Five years of Communiqué. What next?
Communiqué 69: The playbook behind MBO Capital’s bet on Nollywood’s global future
Communiqué 68: Chude Jideonwo left it all behind. Now, he’s building something deeper
Mavin’s loud ambitions + Afrobeats goes to Canada
Communiqué 67: South Africa’s biggest football club is building a media engine
Communiqué 66: Come for the content, stay for the money
MTN’s streaming dreams + realities of building in Africa’s creative economy
Communiqué announces advisory board to strengthen its global vision
How to pitch a Communiqué story
Communiqué 65: Do African creators need talent managers? Penzaarville thinks so
Introducing Communiqué’s African Creative Economy Database
Communiqué 64: Selar’s success is a masterclass in old-fashioned customer obsession
Nollywood’s elevator pitch + Gamr’s new esports hub in Lagos
Communiqué 63: BellaNaija and Nigeria’s wedding industrial complex
Communiqué 62: Techpoint is building Africa’s Industry Dive
HEVA’s new $5 million fund + Nigeria’s creative economy breakthroughs
Communiqué 61: How South Africa became Africa’s gaming capital
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Communiqué 60: Why Africa needs million-dollar media businesses
Big Cabal Media’s reunions + CcHub’s new creative economy adventure
Communiqué 59: A cruise ship inspired by Jubilee Media
Communiqué 58: The making of an African mixed martial arts league
Warner Music’s big Africa bet + Mo Abudu’s global vision
Communiqué 57: How Mavin Records became an African content powerhouse
Communiqué 56: Inside Spotify’s Africa machine
Communiqué 55: How Nigeria’s film industry can go global
The fashion blogger who built a $2 million/year clothing brand
Communiqué 54: Why Nigeria’s film industry has struggled to go global
Communiqué 53: When the artifacts come home to roost
Ghana’s new creative industry blueprint and Nigeria’s box office queen tightens her grip
Communiqué 52: Canal+ has bet its future on Africa, what could go wrong?