This App Is Winning The Streaming Battle For Africa

With 286 million active monthly users and 130 million paid subscribers, Spotify dominates the audio streaming business globally. When it comes to the increasing number of digital service providers vying for hundreds of millions of African ears, however, Boomplay is the brand to watch.
The streaming platform, which is controlled by two Chinese companies — NetEase, a streaming/mobile gaming competitor to Tencent, and Transsion, Africa’s largest seller of smartphones — launched in