Congo-Kinshasa: The Online Start-Up That Went From Launching an Entertainment Website to a Digital Agency and Is Now Running a Music Web TV Channel That's Also Broadcast

The founders of Metro Group came out of the telecoms and Internet business and launched one of the biggest entertainment websites in the DRC. Before long, they found themselves creating a digital agency to handle brands who wanted to get online. Their latest move is a music web TV channel that's creating content that's now being broadcast on local TV stations. Russell Southwood spoke to Metro Group's CEO Shalini Moodley about how it all happened.

Three years ago the founders of Metro Group - who were all in the telecoms and Internet sector at the time- were sitting having a drink at a bar in Kinshasa bemoaning the fact that they didn't know where to eat or go out to.

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