
Afrobeats produced more than $100 million in global value in 2023, yet only a negligible percentage of that revenue reached African creators.
This is the central finding of a new report by Harvard’s Centre for the Study of African Economies and Societies (CSASE), sparking urgent economic concerns about the future of Africa’s most powerful cultural export.
Authored by Professor Olufunmilayo Arewa, the report concludes that Africa is losing the vast majority of Afrobeats-generated…




