After a career at Canal+ and then StudioCANAL, where she was in charge of programming and film release strategy in France, she joined the CanalOlympia network as Marketing and Programming Director for the network of 18 theaters in 12 African countries. After the Covid-19 pandemic brought cinema operators to a...
Monetization of video games in Africa: Kiro’o Games takes a major step forward for the entire industry.
After months of intense work, KIRO'O GAMES has finally succeeded in unifying African mobile money in a video game. The Cameroonian studio and member of PAGG is thus positioning itself as the first player in the global video game industry to have done so in Africa. A major turning point...
The AFD Digital Challenge rewards African innovation
As part of its "Shared Innovation" series, AFD highlights innovative programs created or developed in our partner countries. Every year, the AFD Digital Challenge recognizes ten African start-ups whose remarkable innovations contribute to development. Here are the profiles of the ten winners of the 2021 edition, dedicated to climate and...
Netflix wants to integrate advertising into its platform
This is a major blow for Netflix, which has seen a slowdown in its business. The VOD giant lost 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022. This also led to a $54 billion drop in the company's market value. To remedy the situation, Netflix is changing course and has...
The TRACE Group launches its TRACE ACADEMIA app
The TRACE group is rolling out its training project, Trace Academia, as a free mobile app in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation. This announcement follows the official launch of Trace Academia as a platform in South Africa in May 2021. The goal? To train 26,000 young Africans in digital professions....
Françoise Leguennou-Remarck, Minister of Culture and Francophonie in the new Ivorian government
Françoise Le Guennou-Remarck, previously Chair of the Board of Directors of CANAL+ Côte d'Ivoire, has been appointed Minister of Culture and Francophonie in the new Ivorian government. Françoise Le Guennou-Remarck began her career in 1986 at Ernst & Young Paris. She then joined the CANAL+ Group in October 1992, where...
Former Jumia employees launch Kuruba, an e-commerce platform in Cameroon
Afrimarket, Cdiscount, Jumia in Cameroon and Rwanda... The successive closures of several major e-commerce players have cast a chill over the entire e-commerce market in the sub-region. Despite these successive closures across the e-commerce market in French-speaking Africa, some players are persisting, while others are innovating. Two years after Jumia's...
Studio Kalangou becomes the first African media outlet certified by RSF
From Niger, Studio Kalangou produces radio content in five different languages, which is then broadcast on national radio stations. Led by editor-in-chief Alhassane Abdou Mahamane, Studio Kalangou is a media outlet launched in January 2016 by the Hirondelle Foundation and supported by a network of local partners. Since its creation,...
RTI launches "YES," a program dedicated to entrepreneurship
While Côte d'Ivoire switched entirely to digital terrestrial television on October 21, 2021, competition continues between new channels to attract more and more viewers. This competition is played out both in terms of audience measurement and content production and acquisition. TV studies conducted in Côte d'Ivoire have confirmed that the...
OBATANGA: Alex Ogou's new project
The start of 2022 is proving to be very prolific for Alex Ogou and his production company Plan A. The producer and director has unveiled details of a new series project called "Obatanga" on social media. Well known for directing the hit series Invisibles and Cacao, Alex Ogou continues to...