AFROGROOV

It was great catching up with brother in Kigali this week.

Influent entrepreneur in The Gambia and Sierra Leone, he is a skillful master in policy design and support building infrastructures in partnerships with international organisations and national institutions in West Africa.

The devellopment and strengthening of Africa's IP and CCI is high on his agenda and we discussed path of collaboration to support and accelerate processes for our youth to thrive in these industries.

Just posted my first piece.....apparently this is the hottest new media platform, an hybrid of X, IG, Blogs, Reddit and HuffPost Op-Ed section

Diggin deeper in the sauce nicely cooked by at his recent intervention at ...Bruce spoke, schooled the room about the creative industry & monetization...HE Kagame heard him and said: "Bet, we ll do mobilization" 🤩✨💯
Music to our ears :-)

Read it in full [link in bio]

This year shall be very interesting.

🟣 Mid December 2025, AI Generated music were topping the Billboard charts.

🟣 But that’s only the surface. Behind it: tech developers building the tools, social media pushing a “make music, make money fast” narrative, and streaming services quietly shifting the rules.

🟣 2026 isn’t just about AI music, it’s a perfect storm of forces converging on culture, business, and creativity.

🟣 I looked closer, looked back… Were there signs? Is there a pattern? What role did we play? Here’s what I found

🟣 >>>> read it in full [Link in Bio]

Had a thoughts on the 1000's venues I had the joy, opportunity and pleasure to play at, hang out and worked with during the last 3 decades....made me reflects on why some spaces seems to get it right from the starts, programming on point ☑️ service ☑️ vibes☑️ design☑️ food☑️ dope staff☑️ great crowd☑️ consistency☑️...

while other fails and struggle ❌ get a lot of hype, then abandoned by its patrons rushing to the next thing ❌ dope design but filmsy crowd ❌ erratic programming ❌ boring DJs ❌ expensive yet boring ❌ bad staff & service etc...

Let's not even talk about soundsystems...

Its not even about the $$$ thrown into it...some venues have that "aura"....and most of them have something in common...
intentional intangible Infrastructure...what?

Link to full piece in bio

D'Angelo aka The Black MESSIAH has passed away.
1974 - 2025 🖤🖤

It’s specifically because the scene is flooded with wannabes, and because venues and festivals seem unable to discern and appreciate the skills, the artform, the research, and to separate it from the riff-raff, that these posts are necessary. Like a reminder of what’s what. Because during the acceleration process of social media… something fundamental has been lost.

It’s funny tho… imagine if everybody suddenly decided being a Chef is cool. Restaurants would serve sh*t food, Chefs would be making a show of themselves while cooking, juggling utensils, dancing, caring more about which outfit to wear than about the dish itself. They’d open cans of processed food and throw it on a plate. And in the middle of the kitchen, instead of focus and craft, you’d have a giant LED screen blasting visuals to distract people from the fact that the meal is garbage.

…And where’s Salt Bae now? Exactly!"