Content Creators have long suffered from being victims of content violations.
But this is all about to change as Safaricom on Thursday unveiled a new service that will offer customers a wide variety of video content and provide content creators an additional platform to monetize their content.
Baze, a mobile-first, video-on-demand service that will offer a wide selection of local and regional short-form videos in comedy, drama, lifestyle, music, among others.
Sylvia Mulinge, Chief Customer Officer – Safaricom said the platform will give customers the convenience of accessing a vast collection of video content, including first-run exclusives, on their smartphones.“Our goal is to delight our customers by availing a carefully curated collection of video content across their favourite genres.
Apr 22, 2021
YouTube has launched its first YouTube Africa Reading Challenge, an online reading marathon featuring authors, influencers and key opinion leaders across Africa.
In a bid to help popularise the work of African authors across the continent, the personalities will read extracts from The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, a novel by the African-born Nigerian poet Lola Shoneyin. The book is an entertaining, perceptive and enlightening portrayal of polygamy in modern-day Nigeria. It reveals the struggles, rivalries, intricate family politics, and the interplay of personalities and relationships within the complex private world of a polygamous union.
The novel emerged as the top choice by Africans in a Google Africa survey conducted last July, which asked social media followers which novel by an African author they would like to see read live on YouTube. A total 40 people across Africa have since been selected to kick off the YouTube Africa Challenge, and will be reading
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According to the video platform, part of the aim of the initiative is to also help to popularise the work of African authors across the continent.
The personalities will read extracts from The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, a novel by the African-born Nigerian poet Lola Shoneyi. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives is an entertaining, perceptive and enlightening portrayal of polygamy in modern-day Nigeria. It reveals the struggles, rivalries, intricate family politics, and the interplay of personalities and relationships within the complex private world of a polygamous union.
The novel emerged as the top choice by Africans in a Google Africa survey conducted last July, which asked social media followers which novel by an African author they would like to see read live on YouTube. A total of 40 people across Africa have since been selected to kick off the YouTube Africa Challenge and will be reading from its pages, encouraging others t
YouTube reading challenge to promote African authors
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Google-owned YouTube has launched an online reading marathon dubbed the Africa Reading Challenge as a way of backing African writers.
The online video platform will bring on about 54 readers drawn from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa where each county will have 18 representatives to read during the challenge, which is also aimed at promoting the reading culture in Africa.
Seven renowned Kenyan artists are part of 18 readers that will be part of the month-long virtual challenge.
Thursday April 22 2021
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