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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

Offscript with Lonwabo Mavuso

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

Offscript with Anita Eboigbe

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

Communiqué without walls

Offscript With Nicole Asinugo

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

Offscript with George Gachara

Fresh faces at the helm of the Nigerian state broadcaster + DStv’s podcast bumps

Communiqué 83: Wetalksound wants to be Afrobeats’ Rocnation

Offscript with Ojoma Ochai

DStv’s license on the line in Ghana + Egypt turns up the heat on TikTok

Communiqué 82: Filmhouse takes a third stab at streaming

Communiqué goes Offscript

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

You are invited to Communiqué’s first event of 2025!

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?

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