We came up with the concept of creating a one-stop shop, interactive community where our main focus is new progressive African music and also feature culture, film, art and lifestyle.
[4] In an interview with Black Enterprise Magazine, former CEO Abiola Oke underscores the sites popularity as a sign that African entertainment and music culture is going through a golden age online.
[4] Today, the site attracts 1 million unique page views a month, mostly from the United States, South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria.
The list is assembled in ten categories STEM, media, music, literature, TV and film, sports and wellness, style and beauty, business and economics, politics and activism and art.
The emphasis was to find women who were disrupting their own local youth culture whilst at the same time demanding equal access to the global stage.
Congolese Author, Alain Mabanckou writes that platforms like OkayAfrica are important because they promote accessibility to information and participation in cultural, political, and social dialogue.