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The Deal Sheet: 3 African music deals verified this week

Every music rights, catalogue and investment deal Afrobeats Wire verified in the last seven days, with the source document for each.

Every deal Afrobeats Wire verified this week, with the document behind each one. Figures are as stated in the source; where no consideration was disclosed, the row says so.

Corrections to any figure or party listed here go to the newsroom and are applied to the underlying deal record, not just the roundup.

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Yewande Coker

Yewande Coker is Afrobeats Wire's business editor. She covers the money side of African music: catalogue acquisitions, distribution and publishing deal structures, label finances, and the ownership chains behind the continent's biggest rights.

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Who owns what, who got paid, and who is about to. The business behind African music, told like it is actually interesting (because it is).

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