Netflix has ramped up its investment in stories from African creators with a new slate of African originals and a multi-project partnership with South African filmmaker Mandlakayise Walter Dube.
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Netflix has partnered with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, which will provide a one-time grant of $250,000 to be distributed by the Netflix Fund for Creative Equity, in order to promote telling stories about and by women in the Arab world.
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By 2026, there will be 15.06 million paying SVOD subscribers in Africa, three times the 5.11 million expected at the end of this year, Digital TV Research projects.
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Realness Institute, an organization founded to promote African content, is partnering with Netflix to create an Episodic Content Development Lab for writers in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria.
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Netflix has made a push in Israel to become "a truly Israeli service," using the local language and currency and adding Israeli TV shows to Netflix's original programming.
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