African content is booming on global streaming platforms. But as the industry shifts to appeal to Afropolitan elites and international audiences, who gets left behind? In this episode, Catherine Nzuki is joined by Dr. Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University and the author of <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09502386.2025.2469628">Afropolitanizing the local: how cultural imperialism is rewriting the narratives of African entertainment industries</a>. They discuss the rise of New Nollywood, the politics of representation, and what’s lost when African stories are tailored for a global audience. Her forthcoming book, <a href="https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/media-culture-and-decolonization/9781978841642/">Media, Culture, and Decolonization: Re-righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana</a>, is available now for preorder from Rutgers University Press.

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