How Mdundo music built the first music streaming platform to reach a Million active users per month. Martin Nielsen Co founder and CEO of Mdundo joins us to breakdown how they got it right.

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Graeme Gilfillan breaks down copyrights and the importance of owning your copyright. He also gives us his no holds barred take on the African music industry today and what at artist needs to be a success.

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How can the film industry in Africa make their project proposals more attractive to investor's.

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As a musician, the team you build to help you with your career is very important just as the quality of music you make. Having the right management team is critical to the success of every artist.

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Today we look at how the entertainment industry can attract corporate and private investment into the sector.

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2017 is the year that African cinema will be redefined as movies such as Happiness is a four letter word and The Wedding Party where big hits at the box office in 2016 showing that there is potential for a commercially driven film industry in Africa. We are joined by Sheetal Megan Durban born film maker to get her take on this opportunity. Maitre Gims is the music providing the soundtrack for the first episode of The Business Of Entertainment 2017.

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Music in Africa director Edington Hatitye joins us to discuss the role of the MIA platform in developing the music industry in Africa.

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The first Friday of December 2016 has us looking at the importance of an education to back your entertainment ambitions. We focus on film and we are joined by the President of the AFDA council Dr Christopher John and we discuss the academy award winning institution's contribution to the film industry in Africa and the world - beyond quality human capital.

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Gaming in Africa is forecast to be a 3.7billion rand industry by 2020. We break those numbers down in terms of where the opportunity is with Len Nery Business Development Manager for the rAge Expo and Grant Hinds, the gaming guru of South Africa.

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This week we look at PWC's entertainment and media outlook for 2016 to 2020 looking at the industry from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. We look at the data and commentry in the report covering the Internet, music, television and radio.

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