Hi, I'm Mo Ali.

Welcome to Business Daily on the BBC World Service.

Today we continue our mini-series looking at the gaming industry.

And in this episode, we move our focus to Africa, where the number of gamers has doubled over the last five years.

The average age on the continent is very young.

I think there's a dramatic increase in the rise of connectivity.

So whether that's access to fiber or things like Starlink and so on,

which will just leapfrog the existing technologies,

we're just going to see a massive number of people kind of getting onto the internet.

But the industry faces a problem. Many video games from platforms like Google Play or Apple

require users to pay, either for a subscription or to make in-game purchases, which presents

a problem to many people who don't have a credit card. Credit card penetration in Africa

is only 2.7%. A lot of the traditional

platforms like Google Play or Apple rely on credit cards and therefore a lot of our players just

can't buy the content they want. Big focus for us has been sort of bridging the gap there.

How to Grow Gaming in Africa. That's all coming up on Business Daily from the BBC.

Meet Shaquil Karji and Raid Daniels. Both live in Cape Town and both are part of the increasing number of Africans

who love video games. Shaquille is in his early 20s and Raid is a teenager, but both have

been gaming regularly for close to a decade. My name is Shaquil Kajji. Fortnite is the one that

comes to mind immediately. That's the one that took the

world by Storm when it first came out. It's still quite popular now. There's also a lot of Call of

Duty games, like it's called Warzone. It's got the same idea where basically what happens is

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