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"In the past few years, institutions have committed billions of dollars to the African creative sector. Meanwhile, entrepreneurs have built real, profitable companies. But both sides can't find each other. Part of the reason is that creative founders don't know how to present their businesses in a language investors understand. They are speaking Creativish when the room expects Financialese. Creative Cash Flow is here to bridge that gap."

— Marie Lora-Mungai, author, Creative Cash Flow

What's Inside

The only book about business and finance fundamentals for creatives

UNESCO estimates that Africa's creative sector contributes around $5 billion to the continent's GDP and supports up to 5 million jobs — yet most of the entrepreneurs driving that growth do not have any business training. Written by investor and industry insider Marie Lora-Mungai, Creative Cash Flow is a no-nonsense toolkit for African creative founders and operators who need to master revenue models, manage cash in volatile markets, monetize their intellectual property, raise the right kind of capital, and build businesses that last. This is not a book about inspiration. It is a book about execution, written by someone who has sat on both sides of the table.

Inside Creative Cash Flow — Introduction and The Founder's Journey
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Are you an Artist, a Founder, or a CEO? The answer matters more than you think.
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How to speak Financialese without losing your soul.
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The Prestige Poor trap: visibility does not mean viability.
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The Creative Revenue Map — a business model framework built for Africa.
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Your currency has crashed and your costs have skyrocketed? Try these survival techniques.
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Investors are not your customers. Learn how to make money before you raise money.
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Raising the right kind of money — debt, equity, and grants are not the same thing.
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The AI revolution is here — use it to your advantage.
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Stronger Together: how to get over the scarcity mindset and build businesses that scale.
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Creative Cash Flow is a practical guide to building financially sustainable creative businesses in Africa, grounded in real-life examples and case studies.

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About the Author

Marie Lora-Mungai

Marie Lora-Mungai

Marie Lora-Mungai occupies a rare position at the intersection of the African creative industries and the world of finance: she has been both the founder desperate for capital and the advisor helping institutions deploy it. Over 20 years and 27 African countries, she has built creative companies, raised money for her own ventures, and gone on to shape how some of the world's largest development finance institutions think about investing in African creative businesses.

Her advisory firm Restless Global has worked with governments, the International Finance Corporation (IFC, part of the World Bank Group), Proparco, Agence Française de Développement, AfDB, Afreximbank, UNESCO, Netflix, and Warner Bros., among others. She is the lead author of landmark studies including UNESCO's The African Film & TV Industry: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities for Growth (2020) and Proparco's Success Stories in the Creative Industries in Africa and other Emerging Markets (2025).

Before becoming a strategic advisor, Marie founded a Nairobi production studio, a VOD platform acquired by TRACE in 2016, and a pan-African talent management agency. She began her career as a television journalist at CNN, the BBC, Reuters TV, and AFP TV.

She publishes HUSTLE & FLOW, a newsletter read by 12,000 creative industry stakeholders across the continent. She is a LinkedIn Top Voice, and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

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