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Streaming giants arrived in Africa promising scale and prestige. Producers hurried to meet them with bigger budgets, slicker production and crowd-pleasing stories. The awkward question now: are we simply repackaging the same tropes for global screens — or has African cinema genuinely evolved into a diverse exporter of fresh African narratives? Below we take a market-by-market look (Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Francophone markets, and the diaspora/global stage), point

Across Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa, African women filmmakers are rewriting the continent’s stories — complex, bold, and beautifully real. A New Frame for the African Woman For decades, African films framed women as symbols of virtue, mothers, or muses. Today, they are authors of their own narratives — writing, producing, and directing stories that mirror the layered lives of women across the continent. From Lagos to Nairobi to Johannesburg, a creative uprising is unfoldi

Discover how Africa’s streaming industry is reshaping in 2025 — from business models and local language markets to the platforms dominating Sub-Saharan Africa. “We see a unique opportunity to transform video consumption in Africa with high-quality, accessible and relevant content.”— Selorm Adadevoh, Group Chief Commercial Officer, MTN Group It’s 2025, and the African streaming battlefield  is louder than ever. Showmax’s relaunch, Netflix’s local-first push, and MTN’s telecom-