Known Associates Entertainment and Radiodiffusion Télévision Ivoirienne (RTI) have signed an agreement to develop and co-produce AMBRE: a six-episode, 52-minute science fiction series. Known Associates Entertainment, co-founded by Tshepiso Chikapa Phiri and Dan Jawitz, is the production company behind the hit show Ubettina Wethu, broadcast on SABC1 (an adaptation of...
RFI launches call for applications for the 2021 Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon Scholarship
RFI is organizing the eighth edition of the Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon Scholarship. Once again this year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2021 edition is not being organized in a single country, but in 25 French-speaking countries across the African continent. The eighth edition of the Ghislaine Dupont...
CANAL+ partners with Universal Music Africa to bring Digster Africa to its subscribers in Africa
Digster Africa is a music playlist streaming service created and developed by Universal Music Africa. Launched in 2016, the Digster Africa app is now available on iOS, Android, and as a web browser version. The Digster Africa service is available in 16 countries across Africa and the Middle East. The...
Interview with Sandrine Ochou, founder of OSE TV
Sandrine Ochou created OSE TV in 2017. After graduating from journalism school (ISTC in Abidjan), she decided to create her own web TV channel with the aim of developing and promoting entrepreneurship in Côte d'Ivoire. OSE TV was recently recognized at the Côte d'Ivoire Digital Press Awards , where it...
Ghana on the road to digitalization
In recent years, Ghana's digital ecosystem has been making headlines. And with good reason: in 2019, the GDP of the digital sector grew by 46.5% in Ghana, compared to just 4.2% in 2017. This development has been driven by an increasing number of players committing to digital technology in a...
Facebook rolls out its marketplace in 37 countries in sub-Saharan Africa
Facebook announced today the launch of Marketplace in 37 countries and territories in sub-Saharan Africa. Currently available in South Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Nigeria, Marketplace is a convenient place where people can discover, buy, and sell items from others in their local community, simply by tapping on the Marketplace icon...
Africascope Urban: an innovation from KANTAR
The Africascope study, which measures television and radio audiences and Internet usage twice a year, surveys the populations of the capitals of eight French-speaking African countries twice a year . In order to enable broader geographic targeting, Kantar is offering Afriscascope Urban for the first time since July 2021, which...
5,944,000 subscribers to CANAL+ Africa in the first half of 2021
At the end of July, the Vivendi group presented its results for the first half of 2021. Overall, the group posted revenues of €8.2 billion, up 11.9% at constant exchange rates and scope compared to the first half of 2020. As for the CANAL+ group, Groupe Canal+'s revenues amounted to...
Ivorian programs: NCI accelerates and takes root
The summer provided NCI with an opportunity to place news, entertainment, and fiction even more at the heart of the channel's editorial project, drawing on its expertise in quality production, its in-house teams, and its partner producers. Historic meeting The historic meeting between President Ouattara and Laurent Gbagbo on July...
ADAMANT, the media outlet for connected young Africans
Adamant is a digital agency and media outlet designed for the continent's connected generation. Through short programs, it covers entertainment topics on social media thanks to a network of influencers, producers, bloggers, and media experts from both French-speaking and English-speaking Africa. Thanks to these 100% mobile and free videos, the...