Kwame Mensah Universal Music Group, Sewasew Multimedia and Tuned Global: The Deal Record November 4, 2026
Kwame Mensah KS Group Africa Called Buying Tukutane Entertainment an “Acquisition” in September 2024. The Man Running Both Companies Had Already Founded Them. November 4, 2026
Yewande Coker DJ Maphorisa Said He Won Kabza De Small a R44 Million Sony Advance. Two Reports of the Same Remarks Give Different Figures, and Neither Quotes Him Saying It November 4, 2026
Amaka Nwosu ZIMURA Says In Total Band’s $150 Licence Covered One Show. The Band’s Producer Says It Was Legal All Along November 4, 2026
Yewande Coker Goodlyfe Magic Limited Terminated UPRS’s Mandate Over a 285,498 Shilling Royalty Cheque. Uganda’s Only Collecting Society Answered the Payout, Not the Termination. November 4, 2026
Yewande Coker Cape Verde’s Music Society Signed Reciprocal Representation Contracts With Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau on One Afternoon in Praia. Its Own Schedule Still Shows No Works Behind the Guinea-Bissau One. November 4, 2026
Kwame Mensah Gabon’s Copyright Office Signed an Ivorian Tech Firm to Track Royalties. Its Own Minister Says Only 14 Artists Are Registered to Collect Them. November 3, 2026
Kwame Mensah Verod Capital’s Own 2011 Release Called the Spinlet Deal Both an Investment and “the First Acquisition.” No Source Since Has Said What Happened to the Company. November 3, 2026
Kwame Mensah ZAMCOPS Engaged ACRCloud for Radio Broadcast Monitoring on 13 February 2025. Two Months Later Its Own General Manager Said Fewer Than 15 of More Than 150 Zambian Radio Stations Were Licensed. November 3, 2026
Yewande Coker COSOMA Called a 20% Royalty Deduction a ‘System Error.’ Its Own Executive Director Called the Same 20% Cosoma’s Fee. November 3, 2026
Yewande Coker ChristyB Records Said It Pulled DJ Arafat’s “In Memory” From YouTube in November 2025. On Apple and Deezer, Obouo Music’s Own Copyright Line Never Moved. November 3, 2026
Yewande Coker Orange Burkina Faso Promised Artists 10% of Allô Muzik Revenue. BBDA’s Own Director Called It a Redistribution, Not the Direct Payment the Announcement Described. November 2, 2026
Yewande Coker CashTime Life’s 23-Record Catalogue Carries Its Own Phonogram Claim on Apple and Deezer. Both Stores’ Product Numbers Put the Delivery After 2021, Years After the Label Stopped Operating November 2, 2026
Amaka Nwosu Now-Again Records Licensed WITCH’s Zamrock Masters From One Surviving Member. Its Own Two Credit Lines on the Same 2025 Release Disagree on Whether It Owns Them or Only Administers Them November 2, 2026
Amaka Nwosu Sawt Al-Qahera Says a 2020 Court Ruling Gave It Umm Kulthum’s Masters. Mohsen Gaber Reads the Same Ruling as a Licence to Him November 2, 2026
Yewande Coker Muzikawi Named Sony’s The Orchard Its Digital Distributor in March 2022 and Added In Sheep’s Clothing for US Distribution in May 2026. Its Own Phonogram Credit Stopped Claiming the Masters Outright in February 2025. November 2, 2026
Amaka Nwosu Senegal’s SODAV and Mali’s BUMDA Signed a Reciprocal Royalty-Collection Deal in Dakar. Two of the Five Outlets That Reported It Can’t Agree on One Signatory’s Title. November 2, 2026
Kwame Mensah Sowetan Reported a 51% Universal Music Stake in Kalawa Jazmee in 2016. Everyone Named Denied It, and a Decade of Release Credits Backs Them Up. November 1, 2026
Kwame Mensah Universal Music MENA Announced Three ‘Flagship’ Egyptian Rap Signings in October 2023. Apple’s Own Catalogue Credits Show One Relationship Started 14 Months Earlier, and All Three Ended by August 2024. November 1, 2026
Kwame Mensah Create Music Group Calls Its !K7 Deal an Acquisition. !K7’s Own CEO Calls It a Partnership. One of Them Now Owns the Label Behind Orchestra Baobab’s New Album. November 1, 2026
Yewande Coker Angola’s Copyright Regulator Ruled for SADIA in Its 453 Million Kwanza Dispute With Unitel. Three Years Later, It Cancelled SADIA’s Own Licence to Collect Anything. November 1, 2026
Yewande Coker PopArabia Called 7liwa an Independent Artist When It Signed Him in 2022. Sony Music Middle East’s Own 2019 Announcement Says He Already Had a Label. November 1, 2026
Amaka Nwosu Chocolate City Licensed CKay’s Masters to Warner Music South Africa in November 2020. The Remix That Actually Went Viral Still Carries No Warner Credit. November 1, 2026
Yewande Coker Sintonia Publishing Signed a Reciprocal Global Deal With Sheer Publishing Africa in March 2025. That Company Has Changed Its Name and Its Owner Twice Since, and Sintonia’s Own Site Still Uses the Old One. October 31, 2026
Kwame Mensah Koffi Olomidé Says He’s in Talks to Sell His 816-Song Catalogue to an Unnamed US Label. The Credit Line Behind It Already Names Four Different Companies Across Three Decades October 31, 2026
Kwame Mensah CANEX Creations’ D’Banj Equity Deal Was a Term Sheet in July 2025. No Primary Source Has Confirmed a Closing Since. October 31, 2026
Amaka Nwosu Geez Creative Says Ethiopian Artists Have Direct Royalty Deals With ASCAP and Sentric Music. Neither Record Shows One October 31, 2026
Yewande Coker Four UK Companies Have Carried the Africori Name. Warner’s SEC Filing Names Only One. October 31, 2026
Yewande Coker A Judge Told MCSN and ReLPI to Settle Nigeria’s Frozen N1.2 Billion Levy Fight in May 2026. By October, MCSN Still Would Not Say What It Collects. October 31, 2026
