Sign Before You Stream: The Legal Weakness at the Heart of Esports Business
Esports companies often spend more time choosing logos than reviewing contracts. Teams recruit players through direct messages. Tournament organisers announce...
Africa
One Nation, One Vision: The Leadership Story Behind Nigeria’s Esports Federation
Nigeria’s esports industry has never suffered from a shortage of energy. Across the country, tournament organisers, gaming communities, technology companies,...
From African Panels to Global Platforms: Zebra Comics Is Building More Than Stories
Can African comics produce the next globally successful entertainment franchise? It is an ambitious question, but not an unreasonable one....
From Clicks to Communities: What African Esports Can Learn from Precious Oduro’s Growth Playbook
Africa’s gaming and esports sector has no shortage of ambition. Across the continent, tournament organisers, game developers, content creators and...
The FIFA World Cup Finds a New Home in Ghana’s Malls and a New Audience in Esports
As Africa's esports industry searches for sustainable models of growth, Ghana is demonstrating that the future of competitive gaming may...
BRIDGE/PASSERELLE Selects 18 African Game Studios to Strengthen the Continent’s Independent Development Ecosystem
Africa's game development industry continues to mature as the BRIDGE/PASSERELLE programme unveils its latest cohort of independent studios drawn from...
Nigeria Just Changed the Rules of the Game: Skyline University Fires the Starting Gun for Africa’s University Gaming Revolution
For years, Africa's gaming industry has faced the same fundamental question: where will the continent's next generation of game developers,...
Warlordes Signals a New Era: African Games Are Beginning to Build Their Own Esports Future
For more than two decades, African esports has largely been built on games developed elsewhere. From EA SPORTS FC and...
Verix Has Become Africa’s Greatest Esports Competitor. The Rest of the World Should Take Notice.
For years, discussions about African esports have centred on potential. The continent has been described as an emerging market, an...
Games Are Rewriting Africa: How Interactive Storytelling Is Challenging Decades of Global Narratives
For decades, much of the world's understanding of Africa has been shaped through the lens of traditional media. Newspapers, television...
