Brown, Ryan Lenora. “Whose Stories Get Streamed? Netflix Tells More Africans: Yours.” The Christian Science Monitor, March 5, 2019. https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2019/0305/Whose-stories-get-streamed-Netflix-tells-more-Africans-yours
“Since May of last year, Netflix has commissioned original shows and films from Nigeria, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Last week, the service debuted the Sundance darling “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,” a film by the Nigerian-British director Chiwetel Ejiofor set in rural Malawi and acted mostly in a local language, Chichewa. The growing interest in Africa reflects a growing market, as more people go online and earn enough disposable income to subscribe. And a handful of African productions is a relatively low-stakes investment for Netflix, which rolled out about 700 original movies and shows last year alone. But in courting African filmmakers, it’s also helping to shake up tired notions of whose stories are worth paying attention to.”
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