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Outcomes & Alumni
The business minds behind African creativity. CBA graduates don't leave looking for the industry — the industry is already looking for them. Our alumni run the rooms where deals close, talent breaks and African work reaches the world.
Where our people go
Alumni work across the creative economy.
From major publishers and distributors to Africa's most influential labels and platforms — CBA alumni sit in the seats that move the business: A&R, label management, publishing, distribution, legal and marketing.
Employers
The roles they hold
A&R & talent
Signing, developing and shaping the artists and directors behind the work.
Label & project management
Running releases, budgets and teams from first session to launch.
Publishing, rights & legal
Protecting IP and making sure creatives actually get paid.
Distribution & marketing
Getting work onto platforms, shelves and screens — and making the world care.
The people
Meet some of our alumni.
A selection of graduates now working across publishing, distribution, A&R, label management, legal and marketing — on the continent and across the diaspora.
The Beneficiaries Fund
Where our funded scholars are now.
Talented students supported through the Beneficiaries Fund — placed into internships, legal, media and early-career roles as they build their path in the creative economy.
Alumni stories
From the classroom to the industry.
Composite reflections from graduates now working across Music, Film and Fashion.
“I came in wanting to be an artist. I left running the business behind three of them. CBA taught me the room I actually belonged in.”
“Ten months of running a real company beats any internship. The week I graduated, I understood distribution deals better than people twice my age.”
“I walked the AMEDI showcase with work I owned. A partner in the room offered me a role before I got off the stage.”
Founders
15+ businesses, started by our alumni.
CBA doesn't only place people into companies — it builds the people who build companies. Graduates have founded their own labels, publishing outfits, production houses, management firms and fashion brands, employing the next wave of African creative talent.
The academy is the network: alumni hire alumni, license each other's work and back each other's launches across the continent and the diaspora.
Independent record labels
Film & production houses
Management & marketing firms
Fashion labels & retail
The career pathway
You graduate into a waiting ecosystem.
CBA sits at the Professional tier of a broader talent-development ladder. By the time you finish, there's a funded creative economy ready to receive you — and the AMEDI showcase is where graduates and employers meet.
Discover
Early talent development — where raw creative ability is spotted and nurtured across the three crafts.
Professional · CBA
Ten months running a real company. This is where creatives become the business minds the industry needs.
Industry
Graduates enter a waiting, funded ecosystem — hired into roles or backed to found their own ventures.
The bridge
AMEDI connects graduates to employers.
The AMEDI showcase is the stage where the cohort presents finished, owned work to an audience of partners, labels, studios, brands and investors — turning ten months of building into first roles, first deals and first customers.
“By the last month, the question wasn't whether I'd find work — it was which offer to take.”
Your seat in the ecosystem
Become the next name on this page.
Registrations for the 2027 cohort are open. Ten months that put you inside the business behind African creativity.