Aftown, the "Ghanaian Spotify" who wants to promote African artists

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Aftown

By: Steven Jambot Follow |

Camille Sarazin Follow |

Simon Decreuze Follow

21 min

Aftown Music is a Ghana-based company that aims to develop the distribution of music on the internet within the African market.

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We take you to Accra, Ghana, to discover an online music listening platform.

Her name is

and she is sometimes nicknamed the “Ghanaian Spotify”.

Its ambition is to develop music streaming in Africa while ensuring fair remuneration for artists on the continent.

For

, in January 2020, Camille Sarazin met Antoine Mensah, Aftown's Marketing and Artist Relations Manager.

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