![]() ![]() "So I was intending to accelerate some partnerships and I met the person working in the French Embassy in Senegal in charge of everything regarding technologies. "In Africa, telecom companies act like banks – all of the transactions work through telecom companies," he explains. The idea for the hub emerged last year while Kossoko was in Senegal to solidify partnerships with telecom companies for Gara. ![]() The creation of the Dakar gaming hub is the continuation of these efforts to cater to African audiences and create sustainable ecosystems on the continent. It's a platform in which we integrated all of the payment systems we can have on the continent because people don't have credit cards to pay, so we created another ecosystem." And two years later, we started building a platform, kind of a Google Play Store for Africa. "I was looking for a way to tell African stories, so that's why I started building games, and created the first video game company in France focusing on African stories. I was born in the Central African Republic and when I arrived in France, when I left my country in 2012, I started to notice that there are a lot of people that don't really know the African continent. "I wasn't in this space, I was an engineer in science and management working in the space industry. "I've been in the video games industry for approximately nine years," Kossoko tells. "I was looking for a way to tell African stories, so that's why I started building games" He's also behind Gara, a marketplace to distribute and monetise games across the African continent. The project is led by Teddy Kossoko, an engineer by trade who created Masseka in 2018 – a games studio focusing on African cultures. The aim is to boost the local industry, and put Senegal on the West African gaming map, with developers invited (and paid) to train in the new hub from September. The funding will see the creation of a hybrid structure – part incubator, part development studio – in the Senegalese capital. It's the result of a partnership between Toulouse-based games studio Masseka, the French Embassy in Senegal, the DER (General Delegation for Rapid Entrepreneurship in Senegal), and Dakar-based studio Kayfo Games. A new gaming hub is set to blossom in Senegal following a €300,000 investment announced last month. ![]()
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