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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Mali's state copyright collecting society, created 1978, headquartered in Bamako.
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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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Senegal's public copyright office, 1972-2015/16, superseded by SODAV.
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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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Ethiopia's collecting society for copyright and neighbouring rights, registered in Addis Ababa in June 2017.
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Botswana's collective management organisation for copyright, in Gaborone.
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Ghana's first collecting society, founded 1986, its music rights role superseded by GHAMRO in 2011.
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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.
Collecting Society
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 government-mandated collecting society for music royalties.
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Ghana's collective management organisation for music rights, based in Accra.
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Kenyan collective management organisation for music producers, incorporated 2003, whose 2026 operating licence has been contested before Kenya's Copyright Tribunal.
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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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Nigeria's collecting society for musical works and sound recordings, operating since 1984.
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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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Burundi's statutory national copyright collecting society, created by presidential decree 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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Kenyan collective management organisation for performers and audio-visual rights holders, renamed from PRISK, now the lead collector under a contested 2024 KECOBO restructuring.
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Kenyan collective management organisation licensed by KECOBO to collect and distribute music and audiovisual royalties, amid a contested multi-year CMO licensing dispute.
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UK collective management organisation for songwriters, composers and music publishers. Licensed its repertoire for the African continent through Orfium in a partnership announced in April 2023.
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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.
