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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Caroline Kimeu

Getting creative: African YouTubers and TikTokers search for ways to make it pay

Tayo Aina sitting in front of some colourful buildings
The Nigerian travel content creator Tayo Aina started his channel in 2017 and now has one million subscribers on YouTube. Photograph: Handout

Vlogs by the Nigerian content creator Tayo Aina, on anything from Nigeria’s japa (emigration) wave and voodoo festivals in Benin, to time with the Afrobeats star Davido or the last hunter-gatherer tribes in Tanzania, can garner millions of views on YouTube.

Aina, 31, who started his channel in 2017 while working as an Uber driver, says it helped him to see parts of Nigeria he had never had the chance to visit before. Using his iPhone, he began to make mini-adventures of his work trips, taking breaks to document the places he visited, and telling stories not covered by mainstream media.

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