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177 learning documents, each written to a professional production standard, in four languages — English · French · Swahili · Portuguese. Grounded in the real African market: Afrobeats, Nollywood and African fashion. This is what you'll actually study across ten months.
At a glance
What the curriculum covers
A complete academic system — taught classes, talent development, live practice and craft immersion — sequenced across the year.
Business classes
Talent-programme sessions
Workshops
Practical camps
The three Schools
Specialise in one craft. Master its business.
Each School carries its own vertical curriculum, built around three arcs that take you from the fundamentals to a transmedia, cross-industry view of the creative economy.
Music Business (MBA)
43 classes
The business of Afrobeats and the streaming era — from A&R to the release.
- Navigating the Core
- The Sonic Canvas
- Transmedia
Film Business (FBA)
38 classes
Producing for the high-volume Nollywood model — production to global distribution.
- Cinematic Ecosystem
- Managing the Creative Process
- Transmedia
Fashion Business (FAB)
39 classes
African fashion as an industry — from sourcing and the value chain to the runway.
- Fashion Ecosystem
- Managing the Value Chain
- Transmedia
The Integrated Core
20 classes every student shares.
The horizontal business curriculum that binds the three Schools together — the enterprise, finance, reputation, data and trade skills that every creative business runs on. Eight are full classes; twelve are focused briefings.
It's the shared language of the merged groups that develop an artist, a director and a designer together.
8 full classes
Including —
12 briefings
Beyond the classroom
Talent, practice and craft.
Classes are only part of the year. The curriculum extends into hands-on development, live practice and immersive craft camps.
The Talent Programme
22 sessions developing the creative you'll build a business around — Artists, Directors and Designers — so the talent grows as fast as the enterprise.
- Artists
- Directors
- Designers
Workshops
12 practitioner-led workshops where working professionals bring the tools, tactics and real-world judgement that classes alone can't teach.
Camps
3 intensive craft camps for deep, focused making —
- Writers & Artists Camp
- Production Lab
- Design Atelier
The production standard
Every document is built the same way.
No lecture slides thrown together the night before. Each of the 177 learning documents follows the same rigorous, gamified structure — so the quality is consistent from the first class to the last.
Learning Outcomes
Every class opens with what you'll be able to do by the end — clear, measurable, and tied to the work you're running.
Text-first sections
Substance you can read and return to — deep, structured content, not bullet points on a screen.
Micro-quizzes
Short checks throughout that keep you honest and lock the concepts in as you go.
Applied assignment
Every class ends in your own company — the theory is put straight to work on real deliverables.
Four languages
Pan-African by design — and for the diaspora.
The entire curriculum is authored in English, then delivered in French, Swahili and Portuguese. English is the authoritative source; the other three carry it to creatives across the continent and the diaspora, wherever the market lives.
One production standard, four languages — so no talented business mind is shut out by the language they were born into.
177 documents. Four languages. One standard.
Study the business of African creativity.
Registrations for the 2027 cohort are open. Everything you've just read is what the next ten months look like.