The advantages of listening to podcasts
Listening to content on demand, even without internet connection, is one of the major advantages of the podcast. It is even possible to choose the desired content with a wide variety now available, on news, music, humor ... In addition, many podcasts allow you to be established, such as learning languages.
A study by Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona has shown that podcast listeners are more inventive and have a better imagination. Not having images and only audio content allows you to better stimulate the brain. So you know what you have to do to develop your creativity and operate your intellect.
African podcast
podcasting has a bright future ahead of it . The first African day of the Podcast was born on February 12, 2020. The available podcasts are more and more numerous. In 2021, an incubator of podcasts funded by the BBC media was born for Nigerian, South African and Kenyans podcasters. However, the production of a podcast is expensive. Nearly $ 1,000 for one, which includes equipment, production, postproduction ...
In October 2022, Spotify granted a subsidy of $ 100,000 to 13 creators of content from South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana. These countries are the leaders of the podcast in Africa. Winning podcasts will be recorded in several languages, including Pidgin, English, French, Sheng, GA and Twi. The sum will be distributed by Africa Podfest, a company based in Kenya who wishes to work for the empowerment of African "podcastors".
With its Podcast Legally Clueless, Adelle Onyango, accumulates more than 5 million listenings. Kenya's best known podcaste, tackles themes such as alcoholism, infertility or behavioral disorders. She says that: "mental health is the largest taboo in Africa and especially in African men".
Podcasts in Africa should therefore allow wider dissemination of audio, leisure, but also educational purposes as can do the media to combat disinformation .
