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As African producers, we too often find ourselves faced with two options: produce locally without a structured ecosystem, or aim for the global market and look elsewhere for what still seems sorely lacking at home: funding.
Adja Mariam Soro, Editor-in-Chief

Funding battle
ISSUE 5 · SEPTEMBER 2026
In this issue
Feature
In conversation with
Project spotlight
On the ground
Inside the job
Industry watch
Fund opportunities
The notes
The challenge of co-production
Hamid Ibrahim, Kugali Media
Na Makasi: Ancestral awakening
Fiatope, crowdfunding platform
How the OIF funds animation
News from the continent
9 funds to apply to
The waiting room
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