SOKO CHAFU.
RADA SAFI.
Black Market Africa is a Nairobi-based culture company working across music, media, storytelling, events, and creative strategy.
We create, own, and develop cultural IP – building original platforms, formats, stories, and experiences rooted in contemporary African creativity.
Our purpose is to maximise value for African creators, content owners, and cultural communities by turning ideas into products, experiences, and stories that travel.
We are a team of creative strategists, producers, technologists, artists and cultural operators working at the intersection of entertainment, documentation, community, and cultural infrastructure.
Through our platforms, partnerships, and original creative properties, we build work that connects artists, audiences, brands, institutions, and the wider culture around them.
“Our work is rooted in collaboration, narrative ownership, and cultural memory. We are here to build platforms that help African creativity move further, live longer, and create more value for the dope people behind it.”
~ Bryan Smallz (Founder – BMA)
WE ARE CREATORS
WE ARE ARTISTS
WE ARE AFRICAN
WE ARE GLOBAL
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What We Do
We build cultural platforms, creative campaigns, live experiences, content formats, and original IP rooted in African creativity.
Our work moves across music, media, storytelling, events, technology, and strategy – helping artists, brands, institutions, and audiences connect through culture.
From concept development and production to documentation, audience engagement, and long-term platform building, we create work that is designed to live beyond the moment.
Our Work
Black Market Africa develops and operates original cultural platforms that explore different parts of the creative ecosystem.
Kelele Sessions is our listening room for new African sound. A platform for music, dialogue, discovery, and cultural reflection.
QR8 is our music curation and release platform. Built to spotlight African artists, develop collaborative sound projects, and create new pathways for music discovery.
Culture Pass is our guide to contemporary culture. A storytelling and discovery platform documenting the people, places, ideas, and experiences shaping Kenya’s creative identity.
IMAGINE is our conversation card game and audience engagement tool. Designed to spark dialogue, reflection, and creative participation.
VOSKI [under development] is our youth storytelling layer. An episodic comic exploring imagination, technology, identity, and the future of creativity.
Our Platforms
Our work sits where culture is being made.
We produce live music experiences, cultural programmes, digital campaigns, documentary content, creative strategy, audience engagement tools, and original media properties.
Across every project, we focus on three things: cultural relevance, strong storytelling, and long-term value for the people and communities behind the work.
Whether building our own IP or collaborating with partners, we approach culture as something to be experienced, documented, owned, and carried forward.
