Hi,
We’re building an online library for African stories across film, TV and other mediums. We have a landing page up on kugali.com where you can gain early access to the platform. We’d also appreciate any feedback regarding the platform, business concept or any other relevant areas.
What do you mean by “African” stories? Stories about Africans? Stories told by Africans? Stories relevant to Africans? Just trying to understand this “genre” of enter/edutainement? This feels very very very broad at the moment. I don’t want to start preaching about how Africa is not a country/tribe/one people. It is hugely diverse (something you’ve actually acknowledged in your tagline) so taking on the entire continent might be abit (I lie, alot) of a stretch. How about focusing on one particular corner of the continent and then expanding from there?
Hi Sherry,
Thanks for your feedback. To answer your 1st question we’re looking at stories relevant to Africans. Also, you’re right about the vastness and diversity of Africa however, black people all across the world are calling for more representation. The key thing about this is the level of solidarity many Africans across the world are united in their collective desire to see more black people in Film, TV and other mediums. This is the pain point we’re trying to address.
The west is also very diverse and vast however, services like Goodreads and IMDb have gone ahead and curated western film and books respectively and have been enormously successful. We’re essentially trying to emulate this but for a predominantly African audience.
Hmm… So more or less like @onyeka’s https://nlist.ng
I did subscribe though. Got a redirect to http://taoofotaku.com
Under your portfolio?
Yes very similar concept but our library will resemble iTunes in terms of the number of different mediums we’re looking at: film, TV, etc. Thanks for signing up Tao Of Otaku is a podcast we host where we interview writers, filmmakers, etc across our niche.
