Every year for the past five years, CANAL+ has added a local-language channel to its channel offering in French-speaking Africa and the Indian Ocean. Two new projects are in the pipeline.
1/ Launched in November 2019 and published by Théma. SUNU YEUF is a 100% Senegalese channel dedicated to Senegalese series and theater in Wolof, available on the Africa channels of the Access offer.
2/ NOVEGASY launched in July 2018 as a temporary channel, then permanently in mid-2020 Novegasy is a channel dedicated entirely to fiction in Malagasy. It is broadcast in Madagascar and the Indian Ocean.
3/ MABOKE TV, launched in November 2021, is the first channel to broadcast fiction programs entirely in Lingala, a language spoken mainly in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic. MABOKE TV is available on the Africa channels of the Access package.
4/ ZACU TV, launched in November 2022, is available on the movie/series channels of CANAL+ AFRIQUE's Access package. It is broadcast in Kinyarwanda, a language spoken in Rwanda and Burundi. CANAL+ is preparing two other local language channel projects: "Project P" in Pullarqui, a variety of PEUL spoken in Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Niger, and Cameroon, and "Project B" in Bambara, a language spoken mainly in Guinea and Mali, but also in Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire.