YouTube is this week holding its first virtual YouTube Black Africa Creators Week, a week dedicated to engaging, educating and inspiring African creators to grow on the platform. The week-long programme includes expert-led masterclasses covering topics like assessing channel performance, engaging a...
24 Nov 2020
Chidinma Igbokweuche, also known as Didi Stories Production, and her team of young filmmakers virtually created a short film titled Chaos. Chaos is an experiment birthed from the desire of these young filmmakers to find new and innovative ways to create during the Covid-19 pandemic...
29 Jun 2020
Streaming service Netflix has revealed Jiva! as its next African Original Series. The fun and energy-packed dance drama series will be produced locally and showcases an all-African cast and crew, with Noxolo Dlamini from Sarafina Stage Production and Isibaya) playing the lead, supported by...
25 May 2020
Streaming service Netflix will premiere its young-adult, African original series, Blood & Water, globally on 20 May. The young adult drama is directed by Nosipho Dumisa and features Khosi Ngema, Ama Qamata (from Gomora, My Perfect Family, Rhythm City), Natasha Thahane (from Skeem Saam, The Queen),...
7 May 2020
The One Club for Creativity has announced that it partnered with Spotify to serve as an exclusive sponsor of the 2020 Portfolio Night All-Stars programme. Kevin Swanepoel, CEO of The One Club, says: "Professional development is one of our four key pillars of programming, and we're thrilled to...
21 Feb 2020
The final deadline for the 2020 Sabre Awards entries from North America, EMEA and Africa regions is midnight PST this Friday, 14 February. Entrants in North America may submit their work here, entrants in EMEA may submit their work here, and entrants in Africa may submit their work here....
12 Feb 2020
The US President's Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA) has appointed Mastercard Middle East and Africa president Raghu Malhotra. The appointment was announced at the Corporate Council on Africa US-Africa Business Summit in Maputo, Mozambique. Malhotra will serve a two-year...
26 Jun 2019
Namibia Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) has launched Body with Maria; its first reality show. The show will be aired on NBC TV every Sunday and will be hosted by Maria Nepembe, a Namibian Big Brother participant. Body with Maria' is a reality fitness show for people that want to make changes to...
25 Jun 2019
Friends of the peaceful protester, Mohammad Mattar, have started a social media campaign asking people to change their profile pictures to shades of blue in solidarity with protesters' pro-democracy struggle in Sudan. Mattar shot and killed by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF). His friend's say...
24 Jun 2019
The MTN SA Foundation has teamed up with Bellavista S.H.A.R.E and Curious Learning to pilot Feed the Monster; a child literacy app which enhances reading fluency and comprehension. The app makes the fundamentals of reading more meaningful and fun while reaching out to a wide community.
24 Jun 2019
Birth of a Pride was awarded the titles of Best Nature/Travel film, Best Original Score, and Best Sound at the New York Cinematography Awards (NYCA). The film is about the extraordinary journey of lions returning to a reserve in Botswana as they grow from a single female and her cub into a fully...
21 Jun 2019
Basketball fans in sub-Saharan Africa will now get to enjoy the National Basketball Association (NBA) content on YouTube. In addition to featuring two live games per week in primetime for the rest of the 2018/19 season, the NBA Africa YouTube channel will celebrate the impact of African players in...
22 Mar 2019
Local film Comatose has been selected to premiere at the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (Fespaco) in Burkina Faso on 26 February 2019. The film, which was produced by Mickey Dube, is the first co-production between South Africa and Nigeria. It is a dramatic afro-futurism...
26 Feb 2019
Nigerian digital publisher Publiseer joined Google's Ally matching pilot. The platform matches promising, tech-enabled, emerging market startups with the 'Diaspora+' to close expertise and funding gaps. Google Ally learns about African startups and connects them with the right resources to help...
26 Sep 2018
The philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany, the Merck Foundation has opened submissions for the 2018 Merck More Than a Mother Media Recognition Awards. The awards aim to acknowledge outstanding health journalism and individual professional journalists who have produced accurate, informative, and...
26 Jul 2018
The African Academy of Sciences alongside the African Federation of Science Journalists and the South African Science Journalists Association through the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is accepting pitches from African journalists every month for the Africa Science Desk. The project...
26 Jun 2018
The nomination submission entries for the fifth annual Digital Impact Awards Africa #DIAA2018 #IncludeEveryone are now open. The #DIAA2018 aims to acknowledge the best in digital across Africa; it spans 26 categories and focuses on digital inclusion, financial inclusion, and cybersecurity. The...
25 Jun 2018
The African Development Bank (AfDB), together with the Gender, Women and Civil Society Department has developed an event that intends to equip creative entrepreneurs operating in the textile, apparel, and accessories sector with the tools and knowledge to build a fashion brand from idea to...
22 Jun 2018
Mobiclicks along with its technology partner Silverpush plan on introducing cross-screen media advertising to clients across South Africa through the Magnifi TV sync platform. Maginfi will assist in sending effective campaigns through mobile and TV content. Magnifi uses data from various channel...
4 Apr 2018
Screen Africa reports that there will be a 75% increase in pay TV subscribers in Sub-Saharan Africa between 2017 and 2023 to reach 40.89 million. Sub-Saharan Africa Pay TV Forecasts, however, expects that subscriber growth will overtake revenue progress. The forecast suggests that pay TV revenues...
11 Jan 2018
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) will release its yearly census of imprisoned journalists on 13 December 2017. The CPJ's report will be available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish. The census lists journalists imprisoned as of midnight on 1...
11 Dec 2017
Studio 214 and BLQINC have been working together to rebrand the Lesotho National Broadcasting Service (LNBS). BLQINC has been upgrading the broadcaster's technical abilities and upskilling its staff, while Studio 214 has been developing the rebranding strategy with new positioning and various...
6 Nov 2017
Turner Africa is sponsoring African Animation Network's (AAN) Animation Village at the 2017 DISCOP Trade Fair, that will be held in Johannesburg. Turner's sponsorship is expected to boost AAN's efforts to develop animation talent in Africa by leading several activities that will be hosted at...
16 Oct 2017
BBC Worldwide announced that it has completed its first sales deal with pan-African broadcast network Kwesè TV. The deal formulates a mixed-genre package that will air across 17 African markets on Kwesè branded channels. The deal comes after a recent launch of BBC Worldwide's global pre-school...
14 Sep 2017
The World Press Photo Exhibition 2017 recently touched down in Durban in preparation for the Hilton Arts Festival, which is to take place from 15-17 September 2017. It is the first time in almost 20 years that the exhibition has made an appearance in KwaZulu-Natal. DocuFest Africa is to...
12 Sep 2017
In order to grow in the Kenyan and South Africa markets, InfiNet Wireless has appointed DUO Marketing + Communications (DUO) to handle its marketing campaigns. InfiNet Wireless is a global leader in fixed broadband wireless connectivity and while they have had an operational African presence for...
2 Aug 2017
The Nigerian federal government's proposal to halt the production of Nigerian music videos, outside of the country, has garnered criticism amongst those in the country's entertainment industry. The Nigerian information and culture minister Lai Mohammed had announced the government's intention to...
19 Jul 2017
Global NetBooster Group has announced a partnership with South African agency Limbik Responding Creative. Group's extensive digital services and expertise will be available on the Africa continent.
14 Jul 2017
The inaugural Migration Media Awards will recognise the work of 35 journalists from 16 countries who had reported on the migration to the Euro-Mediterranean region. The entries were selected based on the objective and information-based reporting of the challenges and opportunities of such a complex...
13 Jun 2017
ITN and Getty Images have entered a distribution partnership that will see ITN broadcasts available to licence on Getty's platform. In South Africa, ITN's archive will be available to licence via Gallo Images Johannesburg as it is Getty Images' exclusive representative in the sub-Saharan Africa...
30 May 2017
