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Talking about Africa’s Digital Content Future

Talking about Africa’s Digital Content Future

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The history of African peoples is filled with tons of folklore and a rich oral history. Our peoples in past times primarily disseminated information and preserved their culture in the form of folk tales, songs… content; and the primary platform of distribution was oral. Today, Africa stands to embrace it’s history of original content creation on the platform of the Internet and World Wide Web in form of digital content. A platform that not only creates a powerful media to create and convey original content across the entire globe but also to store it and remix it to create new and innovative...Read More

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