Vivendi makes it live venue no10 in Africa

The French owner of See Tickets and UMG continues to invest in Africa, announcing a second open-air live venue/cinema in Togolese capital Lomé

News By | 5 October 2018

The first CanalOlympia venue in Togo opened last year © Vivendi

Vivendi has inaugurated its second CanalOlympia in the capital of Togo, Lomé, and its tenth in Africa.

The French media conglomerate – whose subsidiaries include See Tickets, Universal Music Group, ad agency Havas and pay TV operator Canal+ Group –opened its first CanalOlympia venues, which serve as both cinemas and live performance spaces, in Africa in early 2017, with Conakry in Guinea, Douala in Cameron, Niamey in Niger and Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso chosen as the initial locations.

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