Now Streaming: Dallas-Based AfroLandTV is the New ‘Netflix for the Global Pan African Diaspora’ » Dallas Innovates

A new streaming platform has launched out of Dallas that’s available to viewers worldwide via an iOS and Android app. But, it’s different from what you typically binge—AfroLandTV is being touted as the first-ever online Pan African streaming platform.

Dubbed ‘The Netflix for the Global Pan African Diaspora,’ AfroLandTV curates original TV shows and movies that are African, African American, Black European, Caribbean, and Afro-Latino.

The African diaspora is defined by the African Union as “people of African origin living outside the continent, irrespective of their citizenship and nationality and who are willing to contribute to the development of the continent and the building of the African Union.”

It’s a market that Founder Michael Maponga recognized was long neglected by mainstream television. Most of the time, he says, many incredible Pan African pieces are left undiscovered because they don’t have a platform to call home.

Zimbabwe-born Maponga was raised in Dallas and has pursued a successful acting career (you can watch him in Finding Mother 2), but is now known as the brainchild behind AfroLandTV.

Through his company, Maponga is able to give filmmakers a distribution platform to share their work. His idea behind AfroLandTV has always been helping others—”people that never had an opportunity to get on a global scale and showcase their stories now have a platform,” Maponga previously told Dallas Innovates. “They see this as a mechanism to grow their dream.”