Reality TV is becoming increasingly popular in French-speaking Africa. What is your view on this? I think it's a natural development for any audiovisual landscape. And this is even more true in French-speaking Africa, where audiences are already fond of reality TV formats that they know from watching them on...
Interview with Christophe Guignement, co-founder of Maison Junior
Christophe Guignement has been working in the field of children's animated television series for over 20 years. After serving as writing director, screenwriter, and artistic advisor for children's programming at TF1, he is now artistic producer and director of PAGE 49, a company dedicated to editorializing content for young audiences....
Interview with Kwame Senou, Vice President of Opinion & Public and Vice President of the Francophone Africa region at Brand Africa
After working at Harmonies Media Group in Ivory Coast, Kwame Senou founded Opinion & Public in 2019, a public relations agency affiliated with the BCW (Burson Cohn & Wolfe) group. Through this entity, he represents BCW in Ivory Coast, Guinea, Benin, and Liberia. He is also the vice president for...
Interview with Karim Konaté, Associate Director of Omedia
Karim Konaté is Associate Director of Omedia. He is based in Abidjan. Before joining Omedia in 2014, Karim spent more than twenty years in communications, in Paris, Abidjan, and Dakar, working successively for the agencies Lintas, McCann-Erickson, and Leo Burnett. Omedia has offices in several African countries. Can you tell...
Interview with Mylène Flicka, founder of IRAWO, a platform dedicated to talent
Mylène Flicka, an expert in developing effective digital strategies and high-impact communities, is the founder of Irawo. In 2020, she was named one of the most influential figures in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). You founded IRAWO. What does it do? That was in 2015. I realized...
Interview with Elodie Mbida, co-founder and Publishing Director of NAOLE MEDIA
Elodie MBIDA is the Publishing Director of Naole Média, a French-speaking African platform specializing in news about the communications industry, with a focus on public relations, communications, and crisis management. Convinced that local expertise must be fully leveraged to grow the ecosystem, she works to promote professionals in the communications...
Interview with Sylvia Vitale Rotta, co-founder of the Team Créatif agency
Can you tell us about your activities? I am co-founder and designer at Team Créatif, an independent design agency created with Nick Craig, my husband, 35 years ago. Today, we have founded an independent international group born out of design with 300 employees and multiple areas of expertise: branding and...
Interview with Benjamin Mampuya, CEO of Compagnie Générale de Communication (CGC) and founder of the CLIPSE platform
Benjamin Mampuya is CEO of Compagnie Générale de Communication (CGC), a corporate communications and engagement strategy consulting agency specializing in supporting economic players and opinion leaders active in Africa and Europe. With 15 years of experience in communications on the continent, he is launching CLIPSE in early April 2021, a...
Interview with Jean-Marc André Kouadio, producer and director at Puzzle Media
What does PUZZLE Media do?PUZZLE MEDIA is an audiovisual production company. Before the liberalization of the audiovisual sector, we were in the brand content segment (producing content for brands) because TV was the only medium available and was unfortunately saturated. When the audiovisual sector was liberalized, we returned to our...
Interview with Alex Ogou, founder of the production company PLAN A
Can you tell us about your new company, PLAN A? Plan A is an audiovisual production start-up created in December 2020 in Abidjan. We are a team of six people from different but complementary backgrounds. What motivated you to create this company? What are your ambitions? The idea of investing...