In Africa, as in the rest of the world, the digital revolution has completely transformed the music industry. New modes of consumption are emerging and online music platforms are developing. Over the past four decades, the music industry has faced numerous upheavals around the world, including a profound transformation due...
The Union of Senegalese Public Audiovisual Professionals (SYNPAP) officially recognized
For several months now, some RTS employees have been complaining about a lack of resources and expressing a desire to rejuvenate the channel. They have therefore formed a union, SYNPAP, which was officially recognized on Thursday, September 1. In a public statement, the Syndicat des Professionnels de l’Audiovisuel Public (SYNPAP)...
CANAL+ launches "Le Futur est à Nous" (The Future is Ours), the first daily CANAL+ORIGINAL series for Africa
The CANAL+ Group is delighted to announce the launch of its first daily series under the CANAL+ORIGINAL label in French-speaking Africa: LE FUTUR EST À NOUS (The Future Belongs to Us). Starting September 5, CANAL+ subscribers will be able to watch this new series, aimed at family audiences, Monday through...
Africa's Rising Cities receives the Golden Visa for digital information
The jury for Franceinfo's Visa d'Or Digital Information Award, which met on Thursday, August 25, chose to award the prize to "Africa's Rising Cities," produced by Max Bearak, Júlia Ledur, and Dylan Moriarty for The Washington Post website. This investigation highlights the rapid urbanization in Africa, where dozens of cities...
Ouagadougou hosts the first international short film festival
Beyond FESPACO, the continent's premier film festival, Burkina Faso is hosting its first international festival dedicated to short films: the Ouaga Court Festival. "There are very few venues for screening short films on the African continent, whereas elsewhere in the world there are high-quality, well-known festivals dedicated to this form...
Announcements, conflicts, and uncertainties three months before the 2022 FIFA World Cup
In July 2021, to everyone's surprise, it was announced that the free-to-air and pay TV rights for the 2022 FIFA World Cup for French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa had been awarded to a Togolese company that was virtually unknown until then: New World TV. A year later, New World TV, whose...
Netflix Creative Scholarships Equity Fund opens to students in West and Central Africa
Netflix announces the expansion of its Netflix Creative Equity Scholarship Fund to film and audiovisual students in West and Central Africa. Applications are now open for those wishing to study at institutions in Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, and Gabon. Launched in 2021, the Netflix Creative Equity Fund will be awarded to...
Ivory Coast: Voxafrica launches the first season of The Voice Kids Francophone Africa
After hosting the third season of the talent show The Voice Afrique in 2021, Côte d'Ivoire is now hosting the first season of The Voice Kids. The pan-African television channel Voxafrica has officially launched the French-speaking version of The Voice Afrique talent show dedicated to children. The channel's teams, led...
RFI launches the 8th edition of the RFI Talents du Rire Award
RFI launches the 8th edition of the "RFI Talents du Rire" award. Initiated by comedian Mamane, a columnist* on the international radio station, in collaboration with Gondwana-City Productions, this award has been showcasing new French-speaking comedy talent in Africa, the Indian Ocean, and the Caribbean since 2015. The winner, selected...
"Africa in Figures," the new magazine from TV5MONDE Afrique
TV5MONDE, the French-language channel, is broadcasting a new 15-episode economic magazine program called "L'Afrique en Chiffres" (Africa in Figures) exclusively on the web. The web magazine "L'Afrique en Chiffres" is a video module that addresses complex economic and social issues by presenting and analyzing key data from institutions as diverse...