African Music Companies
List your company
The directory is a record of who actually operates in African music: labels, distributors, publishers, collecting societies, studios, promoters, platforms. Anyone can put a company forward, it costs nothing, and every submission is checked against its sources before it appears.
- 82 companies listed
- 28 markets
- Free no charge, ever
What a listing is
- A permanent page recording what your company does, where it is based, which markets it works in and who owns it.
- A profile our reporting links to whenever your company is named in a story.
- Free, and free to keep. There is no paid tier and no way to buy a better position.
- Correctable. If we get something wrong, tell us and we fix it.
What it is not
- Advertising. Copy that reads like a press release gets rewritten or sent back.
- A ranking or an endorsement. A listing says a company exists and what it does, nothing more.
- Automatic. Submitting is not publishing, and not every company qualifies.
- A place for artist profiles. The directory lists companies, not acts.
Whether you qualify
A company belongs here if at least one of these is true, and can be shown:
- It is African-owned.
- It is headquartered or incorporated in an African country. The whole continent counts, North Africa included.
- It runs a named African operation: a local office, an African roster, a joint venture, an acquisition, or licensing covering African territories.
Being interested in African music is not the same as operating in it. A stated ambition, a "pan-African remit" or having once signed an African artist will be sent back. We record the fact, not the intention.
What we will ask for
Four things are required. Everything else is optional and can be added later.
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A website
The company's own domain. A Bandcamp, Linktree or Instagram page is not enough on its own, because it is not something we can verify a company against.
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What the company does
Services and business lines, in plain sentences. Two or three lines is plenty.
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Its African relevance
Name a place, an owner or a named operation. This is the field submissions most often fail on.
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Sources
One URL per line, showing where a reviewer can confirm the above. Your own site counts; a second, independent source makes it quicker.
What happens after you submit
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It goes to the directory desk
Not straight to the site. Nothing published in the directory has skipped this.
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We check it against your sources
Head office, ownership and markets are confirmed rather than taken on trust, and corrected where the record disagrees with the claim.
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It publishes, or it comes back
If something is missing we say what, and you can edit and resend. Your draft is kept.
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You are emailed either way
And the listing shows its status on your desk the whole time.
Already in the directory and something is wrong? Write to corrections@afrobeatswire.com instead of submitting it again.