The Africa Channel Announces New Content And Renewal Agreements

The Africa Channel Inc., a licensor of African content in North America with more than 3,000 hours, has reached several new content and renewal partnership agreements with some producers and distributors from the continent and beyond including BBC Africa, Cardova Trading Ltd., eTV, FilmOne, Inverleigh and M-Net.

The content will carried by the company’s two media platforms: The Africa Channel (TAC), a linear television network aims to demystify modern Africa for viewers in the Americas, and Demand Africa (DA), an SVOD streaming destination for original and acquired content from Africa and the global Black Diaspora.

Ava Hall, head of content & brand, The Africa Channel: “We are pleased to continue to support the company’s mission of both raising the profile as well as the economic inclusion of artists from the continent. Through a combination of licensing, minimum guarantees and generous revenue sharing arrangements, The Africa Channel continues to provide additional revenue streams to African content owners via the world’s most lucrative market. We are honored to be participating in these win-win content partnerships.”

New and recently concluded content partnership agreements for The Africa Channel and/or Demand Africa include:

• eTV: including Housewives,multi-award-winning dramatic series
• Film One, ACI, Vision Films, for top-grossing Nigerian feature films including: Banana Island Ghost, Bling Lagosians, Flower Girl, My Wife and I, and The Wedding Party
• Inverleigh: The Rising– documentary series honoring black athletes.
• Action 4 Reel Filmworks: Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess
• Regency Fdn.: SA Inc– New Season, Renewal of existing Season
• MTV: Shuga– three new seasons of the multi-award-winning dramatic series
• Legacy: 30 hours of documentaries regarding such legendary figures as Beyonce, Jimi Hendrix, Martin Luther King, Jr., Michelle Obama, and Tyler Perry

Renewal content agreements for The Africa Channel and/or Demand Africa include new seasons of:

• BBC: Focus on Africa, the daily news from Africa and around the world, and Africa Eye, award winning investigative documentary series.
• Cardova: Expresso– Renewal for new episodes of the live, award-winning daily morning breakfast show marking a decade in business together.
• MTV: Shuga– Renewal of seven existing seasons of the multi-award-winning dramatic series.

• MNET: Renewal of existing content including multi-award-winning dramatic series Lockdown, the reality formats Date My Family, Wedding Bashers, and Cooking with Siba and beloved soap series including The Wild, Battleground, and Tinsel.