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Cynthia Littleton Business Editor Mo Abudu is an entrepreneur on a mission to make her native Nigeria a bigger player in global media. The CEO of Lagos-based EbonyLife Media is tapping into wave of interest from streamers in content from outside the U.S. and Europe to generate a flurry of deals for her production banner, known for producing the detective drama series “Blood Sisters” for Netflix.
On the latest episode of Variety podcast “Strictly Business,” Abudu says she looking to help expand production infrastructure in her home country, as well as to give Africans in general a more prominent voice in the entertainment marketplace. Adubu has watched the trajectory that South Korea has been on with its music, TV, film and pop culture catching fire well beyond the boundaries of Seoul and Busan. She sees a model there for Nigeria.
“My daughter has been watching Korean content for 10 years or longer,” Abudu says. “But look how that has taken the world by storm right now, some of us are just realizing that there’s Korean content out there, but they’ve been on this journey for the last 20 or 30 years. I believe that it’s a journey that Africa is on, and we’ve started the journey.” EbonyLife was founded more than a decade ago as a linear TV channel, which was a groundbreaking move in and of itself, as Abudu explains.
But after five years, Abudu realized EbonyLife would be better off focusing full-time on content creation rather than operating a pay TV linear service. The response to EbonyLife TV in its early days confirmed Abudu’s hunch that there’s a wellspring of untapped talent throughout Nigeria. “It was a very young, very hip, very sexy channel,” Abudu says.
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