Directory
Labels, distributors, publishers, studios, promoters and platforms working across African music. Listings are editorial and free, and every one is checked against its sources before it appears.
Collecting Society
The US fund that collects and distributes performance royalties to non-featured performers, and a named party to the November 2024 SAMPRA reciprocal agreement.
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Benin's national copyright office, collecting and distributing royalties for Beninese authors and performers since 1984.
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Burkina Faso's copyright collecting society, created in Ouagadougou in 1985.
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The Republic of the Congo's copyright body, based in Brazzaville.
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Gabon's state copyright bureau, based in Libreville, which registers authors and collects and distributes royalties on their behalf.
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Guinea's collective management organisation for copyright, created in Conakry in 1980.
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Cote d'Ivoire's national collective management organisation for copyright, in Abidjan.
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Mali's national copyright body, created in Bamako in 1978.
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Morocco's national copyright body, created in Rabat in 1965.
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Niger's national copyright office, created in 1995 and based in Niamey.
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Chad's national copyright office, created in 2005 and based in N'Djamena.
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Togo's national copyright body, created in Lome by law in 1991.
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South African mechanical and digital rights licensing agency, based in Johannesburg.
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The Gambia's national collecting society, inaugurated in 2013 and based in Banjul.
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South Africa's mechanical rights collecting society, formed in 2014 by a merger of SAMRO's mechanical rights arm and NORM.
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Johannesburg-based content aggregator and rights administrator, 45% owned by Gallo Music Investments, with operations in Nigeria, Ghana and Uganda.
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Botswana's collective management organisation for copyright, in Gaborone.
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Liberia's copyright society, the secretariat arm of the Liberia Intellectual Property Office in Monrovia.
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Malawi's statutory copyright body and collecting society, in Lilongwe.
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Tanzania's statutory copyright body and collective management organisation, in Dar es Salaam.
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Eswatini's collective management organisation for copyright and neighbouring rights, in Mbabane.
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Ghana's collective management organisation for music rights, based in Accra.
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Kenya's collective management organisation for sound-recording producers, formerly the Kenya Association of Music Producers.
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Kenya's government copyright regulator, which licenses and supervises the country's music collecting societies.
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Lesotho's collective management organisation for authors and artists, based in Maseru.
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Mauritius's collective management organisation for copyright, established under the 1986 Copyright Act.
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Kenya's music collective management organisation, established in Nairobi in 1983.
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Namibia's collective management organisation for composers and authors of music, in Windhoek.
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Burundi's copyright office, created in 2011 and based in Bujumbura.
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Madagascar's national copyright office, created in 1984 and based in Antananarivo.
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Algeria's national copyright office, created in Algiers in 1973.
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Tunisia's national collective management body for copyright and neighbouring rights, in Tunis.
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Trade association for South African record companies, based in Randburg; runs the SAMAs, the Official SA Charts and sales certification.
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Trade association for Nigerian record labels, currently litigating over who is owed Nigeria's private-copying levy.
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Trade association for Kenya's recorded-music producers, distinct from Kenya's royalty-collecting societies.
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Rwanda's first collective management organisation, dissolved in 2025 after 13 years of low payouts.
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Egypt's music collecting society, established in Cairo in 1944.
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South Africa's collective management organisation for needletime (neighbouring) rights.
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Angola's original copyright collecting society, founded 1990 and now dormant.
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Cape Verde's music collecting society, founded in Praia in 2013.
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Guinea-Bissau's first collective copyright management society, founded 1996.
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Mozambique's authors' society, representing creators across music, literature, theatre, dance and audiovisual production, based in Maputo.
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DR Congo's sole copyright collecting body, mired in an unresolved governance dispute.
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Cameroon's collective management organisation for musical works, based in Yaounde since 2017.
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One of two Tanzanian bodies registered to collect the country's blank-tape levy.
