Playfre, Africa’s Spotify Launches

• Playfre, Africa’s Spotify Launches 

Chika Nwaogu, a Nigerian computer programmer and founder of LAGbook, has created the very first indigenous music streaming platform with over 45 million songs for Africans.

Playfre, pronounced play free, will allow Africans to access millions of songs for free, something they are yet to enjoy on Spotify and other global music streaming platforms.

“Spotify and many other big music streaming platforms have not yet opened their doors to most African countries because of the weak intellectual property laws in these parts of the world, thus making these awesome apps unavailable to the African demographic. Those who have opened their doors to us, still charge monthly to stream unlimited music” Chika said while speaking on why he embarked on creating Playfre.

“We have been developing what will become Africa’s first real answer to Spotify. We at Playfre are trying to bring the over 45 million songs on Spotify to you at no charge, with the same Spotify experience and guess what? We did it!” Chika added.

Officially launched on May 1, 2019, Playfre, Africa’s largest streaming platform, popularly called Africa’s Spotify, is a Nigerian based audio streaming startup.

According to Nwaogu, Playfre will release its Android and iOS apps later this month and will be rolling out ‘Playfre for Artist’ service, a service that let musicians get their songs on the platform for free.

African startup developers have started taking advantage of growing internet users and the adoption of online services on the continent to enrich the quality of life and solve some of the issues holding the continent back.

Stocks of Jumia, Africa’s Amazon, has risen by over 200 percent since its debut on the New York Stock Exchange on April 12. Suggesting that there is a place for Africa’s startups on the world’s stage, especially because of the continent potential to grow at a substantial rate when compared to the rest of the world.

Playfre has keyed into another unique niche that caters mainly for the continent largest population and strength, youths, we at Investors King, wish Chika Nwaogu and his team success going forward.