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C21AFRICA

The C21Africa channel delivers the latest news, features and analysis for and about the African content business. It publishes daily and collates the most recent articles with a C21Africa Weekly newsletter.

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C21AFRICA FEATURES

The Viu from South Africa

Fulfilling Africa’s formats potential

Nigeria’s Showmax spotlights fashion, social media and royalty

How Africa embraced The Real Housewives

Amadasun: Netflix is here for the long haul

What global interest might mean for Africa

MultiChoice looks to turbo-charge African ambitions

Could SA become the new formats hotspot?

Aby Media eyes the various Africas

Philiso highlights Africa’s growing influence on global content

Bringing African animation home

A Côte Ouest of many colours

A view to Akili: Kenya’s ambitious kidsnet

Showmax to launch South African adaptation of The Office in Afrikaans

This is Africa’s time to tell the stories

Egyptian adaptation of The Good Wife to ‘set new standard’, MBC Group

Lupin star Omar Sy launches Carrousel Studios with Thomas Benski, Louis Leterrier

EbonyLife’s Abudu slams global studios for abandoning African production sector

Forging African alliances

MultiChoice – Africa

Africa’s MultiChoice reveals revenue dip, prepares to relaunch streamer Showmax

Warner Bros Discovery (kids) – Southern Europe & Africa

Prime Video Nigeria seeks unscripted series to ‘super-size Nollywood to the world’

Mo Abudu questions industry diversity efforts, calls for higher African budgets

Crescenti strikes the right note in South Africa

The Africa Channel – International

C21AFRICA NEWS

TeamTO boards Triggerfish animated series, gets interest from Ireland’s RTÉ

Africa’s SuperSport takes over Nigerian pirate site Score808 after operator’s arrest

Chudor House picks up Croatian scripted format for Africa, North America

Faith Isiakpere directing new biopic about iconic singer and activist Miriam Makeba

CEE’s Pickbox snaps up SA drama Catch Me a Killer as part of package from Sphere Abacus

Energy crisis among challenges driving streamers out of Africa – van Niekerk

MultiChoice’s Africa Magic preps first entry in planned trilogy of Nollywood films

Acorn TV, M-Net announce S2 of SA-filmed mystery Recipes for Love and Murder

Netflix unveils Love Never Lies and slate of movies in South African content drive

MultiChoice’s Nomsa Philiso talks Africa’s changing place on global content stage

Primedia Studios brings The Traitors to South Africa with All3Media

MultiChoice’s Philiso calls for more dramas telling Africa’s pre-colonial story

SABC mulls business models as it plans first move into streaming orginals

UK deal for Dormer drama White Lies as global demand for African content grows

Kenya’s first sci-fi series Subterranea from Kibanda Pictures set for Showmax

BBC Studios’ Dancing With the Stars returns to South Africa with Rapid Blue

Showmax to launch South African adaptation of The Office in Afrikaans

Crime drama Ellis among premium content on All3Media Int’l slate for Mip Africa

Viu picks up Relative Justice, Africa Channel takes Wild Zambezi from GRB Media Ranch

Aby Media partners Globo to shop formats in Africa