WTH Is Happening in Afrobeats? (Issue 02)
What’s hot, what matters, and what’s next
Make Afrobeats Great Again
Afrobeats went global before it figured out how to get paid at home.
Listen 🎧 (Curated by Notesphere)
Emerging artists gaining attention and where you can find their music.
RCEE (Ghana 🇬🇭)
60K Monthly ListenersMusta4a (Nigeria 🇳🇬)
53K Monthly ListenersFimi (Nigeria 🇳🇬)
20K Monthly Listeners
📺 Playbook
Self-improvement content worth your time.
Tshwanelo Maredi (Director, Artist Development · LVRN) 🇿🇦
Do DSPs give less visibility to Afrobeats compared to pop music on their platforms?
Titilope Adesanya (Director, Operations · EMPIRE) 🇳🇬
What’s something insiders know that upcoming artists would find uncomfortable?
Book of The Month (Curated by The Plot Thickens)
A Love Of Convenience
Love, desperation, delusion, and hard lessons… sis really turned “ride or die” into “suffer and cry” while this man was living his best double life.
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ (4.0/5)
💼 Talent Tuesday (Curated by New Comma)
NewComma is a creative platform connecting African and diaspora talent to the people and opportunities that need them. Every week, we pull a few names from our 60,000+ strong network (designers, photographers, directors, strategists, and more) and put them in front of the right eyes. Consider this your standing window into who’s out here doing the work.
Director of Photography
SPACE CADET (Kenya 🇰🇪 )
Visual storytelling rooted in the continent, built for global stages.
Erick’s lens captures culture the way it actually looks.
Brand Designer
NORKOR NORTEY (Ghana 🇬🇭)
Clean, considered brand identity work with a strong African sensibility.
The kind of designer brands remember after the first brief.