At the 43rd General Assembly held on March 12 in Rabat, Patrice Motsepe was elected as the new president of the Confederation of African Football. Aged 59, Patrice Motsepe is a South African businessman. He has been president of the famous South African club Mamelodi Sundowns for 20 years. At...
Pulse Africa expands in Ivory Coast
Nigerian online news publisher Pulse Africa has announced plans to expand into Côte d'Ivoire. Based in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Senegal, Pulse claims to have several million regular monthly users of its news platforms, which are deployed on the web and social media to reach young African audiences. Pulse had...
6 million subscribers for CANAL+ in Africa
According to the financial report published a few days ago by the Vivendi Group, CANAL+ had a total of 5.983 million subscribers in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa at the end of December 2020. In terms of recruitment, CANAL+ exceeded the symbolic milestone of more than 1 million additional subscribers in one...
Interview with François Le Pichon, Director of International and B2B at Molotov Solutions
A trained designer and entrepreneur (digital agency, startups), François Le Pichon has built up expertise in creating digital platforms in France and internationally. He joined Molotov in 2018 as head of product, responsible for innovation and user experience. In 2020, François Le Pichon launched Molotov Solutions, Molotov's B2B offering, which...
Mohamed Salah and Didier Drogba among Africa's most influential athletes
Sport News Africa (SNA), the sports news platform launched a few months ago, has just published a groundbreaking and comprehensive study on "The 100 most influential African athletes on Twitter." The study was conducted with Smart Data Power, which uses the official Twitter API to collect, enrich, and analyze this...
ALSHANA: Passions TV becomes Passion Novelas
Founded in 2002, ALSHANA CI specializes in distributing various audiovisual programs, such as telenovelas, Indian series, feature films, series, and youth programs in French-speaking Africa and the French overseas departments and territories. Alshana currently operates two television channels: Passions TV and Savannah TV. On April 6, Passions TV will change...
Series Africa highlights African creativity
French-speaking Africa is showing real dynamism in fiction production, which is reflected in a proliferation of increasingly ambitious projects. To highlight African creativity, Série Series Africa organizes pan-African meetings dedicated to series and creators from the continent. After Ouagadougou in 2018-2019, a new edition was initially planned to take place...
LeadHERs: Facebook highlights women leaders on the continent
Facebook publishes LeadHERs: Life Lessons from African Women, a book that highlights women leaders from across Africa. As part of the international celebration of Women's History Month, Facebook has published LeadHERs: Life Lessons from African Women, a collection of real and inspiring stories shared by 19 women from diverse backgrounds...
Africa Radio launches a communication campaign in Abidjan
Africa Radio is launching a new advertising campaign in Abidjan featuring its journalists and presenters. For this campaign, Africa Radio has taken over the digital billboards of the Ivorian economic capital. On TV, the campaign is supported by four commercials in which the continent's greatest artists invite viewers to listen...
Interview with Amadou FALL, Director of Brand Development at MARODI TV
Your production company is in the spotlight. Can you tell us about your activities? Marodi TV is known to the general public as a production company, since that is its main activity: it produces successful Senegalese series such as Maîtresse d'un homme marié and Pod et Marichou. However, some time...