By Daki Nkanyane There are moments in history when a continent doesn’t “rise” – it remembers. Africa stands at precisely such a threshold today. For years,...
By Farhia Noor “When the young carry the drum, the village must dance.” Pan-Africanism is no longer confined to speeches at summit halls or inked declarations....
By Gregory Simpkins The recently-concluded African Diaspora Investment Symposium 2025 (ADIS2025) commemorated a decade of the promotion of Diaspora investment in Africa by the African Diaspora...
By Dishant Shah From the bustling streets of Nairobi to the electrifying beats of Lagos’s music festivals, and the vibrant marketplaces of Accra, Africa pulses with...
By Dishant Shah Africa is often portrayed through a narrow lens in the global media – focused on poverty, conflict, and instability. But this is far...
By Danilo Desiderio All members of the World Trade Organization (WTO), including countries and customs territories, undergo periodic reviews of their trade policies. The frequency of...
By Samuel Samiai Andrews Nigeria has finally updated its 2004 copyright law, bringing it into the digital era – where the entertainment industry has been for...
By David Thomas Africa’s film and audiovisual industry could create over 20 million jobs and an extra US$20 billion in annual revenues with further investment, according...
Africa’s largest online movie platform, and online distributor of Nigerian movies (Nollywood) – iROKO and Canal+ Group have teamed up to launch a new Android-based mobile...
Vodafone is partnering iROKOtv, an online movie platform, to introduce the first ever video on demand (VoD) service in Ghana, offering unlimited access to over 6,000...
Jason Njoku, founder and CEO, iROKO Partners The Internet will be a key driver for the Nigerian economy – Africa’s largest economy, where the number of...
Nigerian Nam Mokwunye’s startup, PublicVine has been boosted by a $5 million investment as it readies for its June 6th 2014 global launch. The US-based platform...
Nollywood, Nigeria’s homegrown film sector, has been identified as being among industries which boosted the West African country’s GDP to $510 billion, making it Africa’s largest...
Nigeria overtook South Africa as Africa’s largest economy after a rebasing calculation almost doubled its GDP to more than $500 billion. Gross domestic product (GDP) for...
Jason Njoku, founder and CEO, iROKO Partners iROKO Partners, the world’s biggest online distributor and platform for Nigerian movies and music, has revealed that the company...
African movies in your pocket Watch trailers of movies produced in the African movie markets, most especially Nollywood. Get to watch African music videos, comedy online...
iROKOtv, the online distributor of Nigerian movies, and Africa’s largest online movie platform, has announced the launch of a brand new mobile app for the platform,...
iROKOtv, Africa’s largest online platform for streaming movies celebrated its first anniversary last week. iROKOtv has invested in building the world’s largest library of Nollywood movies...
Filming staff on set during a movie shoot in Nigeria. PHOTO/File Nigeria’s Nollywood s the second largest film industry globally in terms of the number of...
Nollywood shoot. PHOTO/Aimee Corrigan “Nollywood films allow Black people to shine” Nollywood is the third largest film industry in the world behind Hollywood and Bollywood. Nollywood...
How to make money from movies online is a question vexing studio executives the world over. But a Nigerian tech entrepreneur claims to have the answer,...
