SPARK AFRICA: Broaden Your Perspective

SPARK AFRICA LIMITED

(C.136207)

 

Is a multi-skilled, multi-cultural 21st Century creative agency providing intergrated communication solutions for marketers.

 At Spark Africa we believe that what a brand communicates is equal to the life line of that brand. Information can design, shape and bend the mind towards a certain view. At it’s simplest, Communication is a simple identity. At its most effective, its an intergrated marketing campaign tool that utilizes all known form of media to communicate yourself and your brand.  

 At Spark we follow a phased approach that starts with an in-depth understanding of our partner’s brand strategy, leading to creative solutions, then execution of marketing activities to deliver measurable and profitable results. 

SPARK AFRICA Limited:

Formed in Kenya during January 2007, Spark Africa Limited is a multi-media, youth-orientated authority on African urban culture, fashion, music & entertainment, with core competence in a mix of branded products & services:

CLIENT: ACCORD INTERNATIONAL - London UK, Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: January 2007

Job: EPA Campaign

Job delivered:

• Website development and management.
• Creating the campaign logo.
• Creating posters, fliers, action cards, pull-up banners and t-shirts.
• Production of posters, fliers, action cards, pull-up banners and t-shirts.
• Photography creative and management and models’ audition.

CLIENT: Rhumba Kali African Hip Hop - Amsterdam, Netherlands

Contractual Period: January 2007 until present

Job: Editorial on African hip-hop.com

Job delivered:

• Website editorial and management.

CLIENT: Both Ends/ Baobab Connection - Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Contractual Period: January 2007 until present

Job: Editorial

Job delivered:

• Website editorial and management.
• Office management.
• Event management.
• Team management.
• Ideas for competitions.
• Editorial meetings.
• Street team and publicity.

CLIENT: FECCLAHAH (Fellowship of Christian Councils & Churches in the Great Lakes & Horn of Africa) - Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: January 2007

Job: In House Print Production

Job delivered:

• Creative management of New Year Cards,  FECCLAHAH 2007 Yearly Calendar, 2007 yearly planner and annual brochures. 
• Production of 5,000 New Year Cards, 10,000 FECCLAHAH 2007 Yearly Calendars, 10,000 2007 yearly planner and 10,000 annual brochures.

CLIENT: Kenya Human Rights Commission- Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: January 2007

Job: World Social Forum, Haki Night (Justice Night), Kasarani Stadium

Job delivered:

• Booking artists.
• Talent liaison and management.
• Event management.

CLIENT: BRITISH COUNCIL - Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: January 2007 until present.

Job: WAPI – Words & Pictures

Job delivered:

• Booking artists
• Artist liaison.
• Event management.
• Sound management.
• Team coordination.
• Reporting to client.
• PR & Publicity.
• Photography creative and management.
• Sponsorship arrangements (Sprite/ Zain/ Wrigley’s).
• Ideas.

CLIENT: United Nations Habitat – Kampala, Uganda

Contractual Period: February 2007

Job: United Nations City Great Lakes States Conference

Job delivered:

• Event management.
• Team coordination.
• Program coordination.

CLIENT: SOUTH AFRICAN TOURISM - Johannesburg, South Africa

Contractual Period: March 2007

Job: South African Tourism – Kenyan Consumers Activation

Job delivered:

• Street banners production.

CLIENT: BRITISH COUNCIL – Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Contractual Period: March 2007

Job: WAPI – Words & Pictures

Job delivered:

• Artist liaison.
• Event management.
• Sound management.
• Team coordination.
• Reporting to client.

CLIENT: African Hip Hop Radio - Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Contractual Period: June 2007 until present

Job: Radio show on African hip-hop

Job delivered:

• Radio show production and management.
• Studio booking and management.
• Artists booking and management and recording the show and hosting it.
• Photography, set and sound management.
• Facilitation of internet uploads of the show.

CLIENT: BRITISH COUNCIL – Lagos, Nigeria

Contractual Period: July 2007

Job: WAPI – Words & Pictures

Job delivered:

• Artist liaison.
• Event management.
• Sound management.
• Team coordination.
• Reporting to client.

CLIENT: WAPI Times Magazine– Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: July 2007 until present

Job: WAPI Times Monthly Magazine

Job delivered:

• Editorial/ photography/ interviews/ design/ print/ publishing/ management.
• Sourcing advertising and branding revenue (Sprite/ Zain/ FCC/ Wrigley).
• Quoting, Invoicing and sorting payments from finance managers.
• Updating website content on WAPI Times facebook.
• Editorial and advertising reports.
• Distribution of 10,000 copies across Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria and Zanzibar.

CLIENT: Spark Africa & Emerge Films, Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: September 2007

Job: Dead Prez East African Tour (Ni Wakati)

Job delivered:

• Artist management and Liaison New York – Nairobi.
• Sourcing sponsorship from Sprite and selling dates to Tanzania.
• Managing the artist itinerary/ breakfast/ lunch/ dinner.
• Work permits/ migration status papers.
• Sorting artists’ per diems and payment.
• Security/ hotel and transportation management.
• Press and publicity management.

CLIENT: Tribes Magazine, North Carolina, USA

Contractual Period: October 2007 until present

Job: Editorial on www.tribesmagazine.com

Job delivered:

• Editorial management

CLIENT: Channel O TV/ Republic – Johannesburg, South Africa

Contractual Period: January 2008

Job: Emcee Africa; The Kenyan Leg of the search for Best African Rapper

Job delivered:

• Artist coordination, registration, choosing judges and profiling them.
• Coordination with sponsorship from Sprite.
• Managing the South African film crew itinerary.
• Managing film crew’s equipment, transportation and accommodation.
• Logistics, work permits/ migration status papers for film crew.
• Security/ hotel and transportation management.
• Press conference management, TV/radio interviews management.
• Risk assessment and Event management.
• Street team flyers activation at universities, colleges, studios.
• Coordination with client for branding and report management.

CLIENT: United Nations; Habitat/ City Council of Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: February 2008

Job: Kenya Peace Week; National Youth Violence Prevention Week, KICC.

Job delivered:

• Artist management and Liaison over 30 artists.
• Sorting sponsorship from United Nations Habitat of over USD 50,000.
• Budget management, making payments and logistics management.
• Digital/ web publicity, Press, interviews and publicity management.
• Risk assessment and event management.
• Client coordination and report management.
• Coordinating programmes and schedules.

CLIENT: US Embassy – Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: March 2008

Job: US/ Kenya Cultural Exchange with High School Students,

Job delivered:

• Pitching, formulating and executing the idea.
• Searching and identifying the high school
• Communicating and liaising with the principal.
• Identifying suitable facilitators for poetry and dance sessions.
• Coordinating with client to be available on site.
• Budget and Logistics management.
• Time management/ Event management/ Report management.

CLIENT: British Council – Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: March 2008

Job: Blak Twang Tour of Kenya

Job delivered:

• Press, interviews, PR and publicity management.
• Street team publicity/ flyers/ posters.
• Press conference management
• Country and Community tour.
• Production Skill factory session with upcoming producers and poets.
• Itinerary/ Event/ Time/ Security/ Budget/ Transport/ management

CLIENT: British Council – Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: April 2008

Job: International Young Music Entrepreneur of the Year Award

Job delivered:

• Press, interviews and publicity management; getting the word out there.
• Appointing judges.
• Going through the entries over 1,000 to choose the best 10.
• Conducting the interviews of the best 10 to choose winner.
• Prize giving occasion.

CLIENT: British Council – Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: April 2008

Job: Business Leadership Forum on Creative Industry, New Stanley Hotel

Job delivered:

• Chosen as a young upcoming business to be a facilitator together with musician Eric Wainaina and (Intellectual Property Lawyer & Lecturer at the University of Nairobi) Dr. Ben Sihanya.

CLIENT: CFC Life Assurance Bank – Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: April 2008

Job: CFC Life Assurance Annual Awards, Inter Continental Hotel

Job delivered:

• Provision of entertainment management for the evening.
• Talent management.

CLIENT: British Council – Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: April 2008

Job: International Young Music Entrepreneur of the Year Award

Job delivered:

• Press, interviews and publicity management; getting the word out there.
• Appointing judges from the Kenyan music industry.
• Going through the entries over 1,000 to choose the best 10.
• Facilitating availability of best 10.
• Conducting the interviews of the best 10 to choose winner.
• Prize giving to the winner.
• Relaying winner information to press and public.
• Report.

CLIENT: ADAM Magazine/ EA Publishers, Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: May 2008 until present

Job: Editorial for Adam magazine

Job delivered:

• Editorial

CLIENT: BRITISH COUNCIL – Accra, Ghana

Contractual Period: May 2008

Job: WAPI – Words & Pictures

Job delivered:

• Artist liaison.
• Event management.
• Team coordination.
• Reporting to client.

CLIENT: Kenya Breweries Limited – Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: May 2008

Job: Pilsner Re-branding Launch

Job delivered:

• Provision of the evening’s entertainment
• Managing the schedule and talent.

CLIENT: Sarakasi Trust, Sawa Sawa Festival – Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: May 2008

Job: Sawa Mtaani, the Arboretum Park, Nairobi

Job delivered:

• Sound/ stage/ venue/ management.
• Artists profiles, liaison and talent management.

CLIENT: Kwa-Zulu Natal Provincial Government – Durban, South Africa

Contractual Period: June 2008

Job: ONE CITY; Global Youth Summit, Durban, South Africa

Job delivered:

• Liaison of two Kenya winners of youth poetry competition.
• Digital/ web publicity, Press, interviews and publicity management.
• Facilitation of meetings and sessions.
• Coordinating programmes and schedules.

CLIENT: Slam Africa – Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: June 2008 till present

Job: Slam Africa Kenya; Spoken Word Championship

Job delivered:

• Artist Liaison.
• Sound, venue, press, interviews and publicity management.
• Seeking of meetings for sponsors.
• Coordinating with partners in other African countries to spread out.

CLIENT: Peach Mobile – Johannesburg, South Africa

Contractual Period: June 2008 till present

Job: Managing Kenya Mobile Content

Job delivered:

• Artist Liaison.
• Point of contact.
• Mobile phone content
• Client introduction into Kenya
• Meetings with artists introducing the concept.
• Content ideas.
• Production
• Orientation
• Artist contracts
• Budget and payments

CLIENT: Mobile Sawa – Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: June 2008 till present

Job: Managing Mobile Sawa Ringtones

Job delivered:

• Artist Liaison.
• Mobile phone content.
• Point of contact

CLIENT: Arts Alive – Johannesburg, South Africa

Contractual Period: July 2008

Job: International Young Music Entrepreneur of the Year Award

Job delivered:

• Provision of poet for Arts Alive
• Managing press and interviews
• Managing itinerary
• Managing travel, ticketing and payments.
• Liaising between artist and client.

CLIENT: Story Moja Publishers – Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: August 2008

Job: The Nyama Choma Book Fiesta; Story Telling Fiesta

Job delivered:

• Sound/ and stage management.
• Digital publicity.

CLIENT: CFC Stanbic Bank, Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: October 2008

Job: CFC Stanbic Win out of the Blue TV Infomercial Production Shoot

Job delivered:

• Project management.
• Filming & editing of infomercial production.

CLIENT: Scanad Advertising Agency - Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: November 2008 until present.

Job: Jipange Youth Campaign/ www.gpange.com

Job delivered:

• Website design management.
• Website editorial.
• Live website updates at the concert launch.
• Website publicity.
• Client updates.

CLIENT: Kenya Human Rights Commission- Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: November 2008 until present.

Job: EPA Financial Crisis Campaign

Job delivered:

• Concept and design management.
• Copyrighting.

CLIENT: Embassy of Finland – Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: December 2008

Job: Finnish Independence Day

Job delivered:

• Sound/ and stage management.
• Talent and artist management.
• Rehearsal management for Finish national anthem.

CLIENT: Environmental Youth Alliance, Vancouver, Canada

Contractual Period: January 2009

Job: Mobile Movement

Job delivered:

• Music content provision.
• Managing contracts and payments.

CLIENT: United Nations; Habitat – Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: 30th March – 4th April 2009

Job: Governing Council Week, United Nations Headquarters, Gigiri.

Job delivered:

• Management of Sustainable Development Slam Workshop
• Logistics for payment of week’s artists and participants.
• Managing artists at the Youth Empowerment Ceremony attend by UN Habitat Director Anna Tibaijuka.
• Liaison with UN Habitat Partners section for MOT. (Messengers of Truth).
• Reporting back to UN Habitat.

CLIENT: United States Embassy, Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: 30th April 2009

Job: Dynamax Tour of Kenya.

Job delivered:

• Management of music workshop
• Performance

CLIENT: Channel O TV

Contractual Period: 6th June 2009

Job: Emcee Africa 2

Job delivered:

• Management of media and publicity
• Management of front desk communication.
• Management of artists and event.

CLIENT: United Nations; Habitat – Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: 30th November 2009

Job: MOT Urban Youth and Arts Summit UN Headquarters, Gigiri.

Job delivered:

• Conceptualization
• Management of Whole Event and Logistics
• Inviting delegates and participants
• Managing discussion sessions
• Liaison with UN Habitat Partners section for MOT. (Messengers of Truth).
• Reporting back to UN Habitat.

CLIENT: Roots International/ US Embassy – Nairobi, Kenya

Contractual Period: 17th – 23rd December 2009

Job: US/ Kenya Cultural Exchange with US Based Arbaminch Collective,

Job delivered:

• Media consultancy; interviews on radio and TV.
• Venue coordination.
• Time management/ Event management

CLIENT: THE PATRICIA SHOW

Contractual Period: 1st January 2010 -

Job: Guest Bookings

Job delivered:

• Guest networking
• Booking international guests
• Reporting

CLIENT: GOETHE INSTITUT, NAIROBI

Contractual Period:  20th July 2010

Job: NAIROBI BERLIN COLLABORATION

Job delivered:

• MCing and Hosting event
• Briefing both local and German artists about the event
• Reporting back to client

CLIENT: ROCK4000/ SONY RECORDS

Contractual Period: 1st October – December 2010

Job: AIRTEL ONE 8

Job delivered:

• Blogging/ Social networking
• Representing the One8 brand at all times and getting the news to other sites and newspapers.
• Reporting back to client

CLIENT: BLANKETS AND WINE

Contractual Period: 1st January 2011 -

Job: Publicity and Bookings

Job delivered:

• Blogging/ Social networking
• Booking international artists

CONTACT SPARK AFRICA FOR BOOKINGS/ IDEAS/ ARTISTS/ MCs. 

Call: +254 718328717