Just a few months after the creation of the first NBA Academy Africa in Dakar, aimed at identifying talent and structuring African basketball, the NBA is continuing its expansion and exporting itself to the continent. For the first time in the association's history, the NBA has announced the creation in...
The Jack Ma Foundation launches The Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative
At the Youth Connekt Africa summit held in Kigali in 2017, Jack Ma, a leading figure in the Chinese internet industry, announced the creation of a $10 million fund to support African entrepreneurship and economic development on the continent. Managed by the Jack Ma Foundation, this fund aims to offer...
Conference on "Media, Business, and Music in Africa" with Olivier Laouchez, founder of TRACE
"Within ten years, the African music market will be bigger than the European market." Olivier Nusse, CEO of Universal Music France, on lesechos.fr. But which media for which music in Africa today? Olivier Laouchez, CEO of Trace TV, will host a conference on the subject. He will share his experience...
Eutelsat reaches milestone in construction of Konnect satellite
Eutelsat announces the successful coupling of the KONNECT satellite platform and payload, carried out this week at the Thales Alenia Space site in Cannes. This operation marks an important milestone in the construction of the satellite, ahead of its launch scheduled for the end of the year. With capabilities to...
"Women of Africa in Action," TV5Monde's new short program featuring an all-female cast
TV5MONDE, the French-language channel, will broadcast exclusively from March 1st for one month a new short program dedicated to portraits of influential women in Africa: "Women of Africa in Action." International Women's Day will thus be celebrated every day in March on TV5MONDE, in addition to March 8th. Designed by...
Interview with Sandra Coulibaly, Marketing and Sales Director, member of the NCI Executive Committee
NCI is one of the channels on the upcoming Ivorian digital terrestrial television network. What sets it apart? NCI is a 100% Ivorian general-interest channel. We have made significant investments to develop a high-quality channel that will offer all kinds of programs in the coming months. The TV studios currently...
Interview with Jérôme Dutoit, General Manager of the Melody channel
Jérôme Dutoit, 47, comes from the world of television. With a postgraduate degree in Law and Audiovisual Communication Administration (Paris I), Jérôme Dutoit began his career at TF1 in 1991 as a research officer in the marketing department, then joined IMCA in 1994 as a consultant supporting producers and broadcasters...
Blood & Water, Netflix's second original African series
Last December, Netflix announced its ambitions to produce original African series. Queen Sono, the first series made in Africa produced by Netflix, marked the American platform's entry into the world of African series. Today, the world leader in streaming and VOD continues its advance on the continent with the production...
TRACE: new content sales contracts in Africa
At the end of the 69th Berlinale on February 17, TRACE announced the signing of new sales contracts in Africa, confirming its ambition to support African filmmaking through the group's content distribution division, Trace Content Distribution. These new sales confirm buyers' interest in Afro-urban entertainment. TRACE has signed a pre-purchase...
Abidjan and Lomé host the Africa TechUp Tour
The economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire will mark the first stop on the Africa TechUp Tour, a series of pan-African hackathons organized to support digital technology and innovation on the continent in the service of development. Organized by the Hackafrica association and the company Rintio, the Africa TechUp Tour is...