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CANEX WKND 2026 Partners
CANEX WKND is built with a community of partners who share our belief in Africa's creative economy. Some help us carry the story to the world; others help us shape what happens on the ground. Together they make four days in Lagos possible.
Media Partners
Our media partners carry CANEX WKND to the world. From newsrooms and magazines to broadcasters and digital platforms, they amplify the stories, the talent and the business taking place across four days in Lagos, reaching audiences throughout Africa and the global diaspora.
Meet our Media Partners
VinycultureVinyculture is an Algerian digital media platform established in 2011. It covers cultural news in Algeria and worldwide, highlighting Algerian and African heritage. Since 2023, Vinyculture has also offered an online ticketing solution, becoming the leader in cultural ticketing in the country. From music and cinema to comics and television, everything is there to inform and entertain.
Bella Naija BellaNaija - a leading lifestyle and advocacy digital media company that has a strong presence with nearly 10 million followers across various channels.
Our super brands, BellaNaija, BellaNaijastyle, and BellaNaijaWeddings are known for bridging the gap between the imagined conceptions and the actual realities of Africa, resonating with dynamic individuals living transnational multifaceted lives. 
Music in Africa & Access The Music In Africa Foundation is a pan-African arts organisation that supports the African music sector, particularly music creators. It does this by creating opportunities for music professionals to learn, exchange, develop and promote their careers, and by implementing developmental projects in artist mobility, capacity building, education and performance, among others.
Programming Partners
Our programming partners help shape what happens on the ground at CANEX WKND. These are the organisations, institutions and platforms that co-create the programme with us — curating panels and masterclasses, staging performances and screenings, and leading sessions across the CANEX verticals.
Meet our Programming Partners
Narrative Landscape Press Narrative Landscape Press Limited was founded in 2016 by Anwuli Ojogwu and Dr.Eghosa Imasuen. The dream of the founders was to create a firm that could distil the essence of the publishing process and provide a service to other publishing houses and self-publishing authors within the Nigerian space. The company signed service level agreements as providers of publishing services to institutions like the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library. In 2018, NLP decided to take the plunge into traditional publishing and opened its submissions desk. Their first big success was our acquisition of the books of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. They have since ventured in other genres of traditional publishing and are now taking our first steps into educational books for school curricula.
Africa Culture Fund Created in 2018 in Ségou, Mali, ACF is an initiative,
of African artists and cultural actors, which defends a continent's desire to write new narratives and take its rightful place on the world stage through the
voice of its unique culture through the professionalization and funding of innovative cultural projects.
NIFSThe Nigerian International Film Summit (NIFS) is a high-level film business conference and networking event organized to focus on the local and global promotion of various aspects of film business taking place in Lagos, Los Angeles, Toronto, London, and Paris. It remains a top-level B2B event for film convergence that brings together top local and international film and TV
industry executives involved in the film and TV business. The primary aim of NIFS is to promote business-driven conversations and meetings on
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