Musicians in French-speaking Africa eye global market through streaming – FRANCE 24 English

Musicians from the continent’s francophone countries are now looking to cash in on the boom.

Africa’s streaming leader is Boomplay, whose library of 80 million tracks is almost in the same ballpark as those of Deezer and Spotify.

But Boomplay’s big difference with the global giants is a catalogue that focuses intensively on African music rather than a broader range of genres.

The app was created in Nigeria in 2015 and is now present in six African…