Spotify has announced it will launch in Nigeria and another 38 African countries in the coming days.
At present, the music streaming company is only available in South Africa and North African countries.
The African countries are:
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Capo Verde, Cameroon, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The platform is also branching out into more countries in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.
“Together these markets represent more than a billion people, with nearly half of them already using the Internet,” Spotify’s chief premium business officer Alex Norstrom is quoted by Tech Central as saying.