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Strictly Entertainment Music

UK music company running the African Music Summit and, since September 2025, a Kenyan joint-venture label with Sub Sahara Entertainment.

Based in
United Kingdom
Founder
Chiedozie Onuora ("Eddo"); Ikechukwu Onuorah ("Black PHARAOH")

Strictly Entertainment Music is a UK-based music industry company co-founded by Chiedozie Onuora, known as Eddo, and Ikechukwu Onuorah, known as Black PHARAOH. It runs the African Music Summit, a conference and consultancy platform, alongside digital distribution and education services aimed at African and diaspora artists.

The company is independent, run by its two co-founders. In September 2025 it formed a joint-venture label, Strictly-Sub Sahara Entertainment, with Kenya’s Sub Sahara Entertainment, bringing together a roster of ten East African artists including Zzero Sufuri, KusMa and Teejay Kere under a shared release and distribution plan starting in 2026.

The joint venture is Strictly Entertainment Music’s clearest African footprint: a named, dated partnership with a Kenyan company rather than a one-off licensing credit. It was announced at an industry event in Nairobi and reported by Music In Africa and Kenya’s Standard Media, with IFPI, Universal Music and Sony Music representatives present as witnesses.

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