by Russell Southwood (@BalancingActAfr) In this video interview, we talk to Phiona Okukmu, co-founder of 
AfriPOPmag.com, about:
- how Afripop got started
- what it covers
- its audience
- her role as the content director of Social Media Week Johannesburg, and
- the things she liked in last year’s Social Media Week and the plans for 2015.
Russell Southwood (@BalancingActAfr) is the founder of Balancing Act and the web TV channel Smart Monkey TV (@SmartMonkeyTV), and has been an analyst in telecoms, internet and broadcast in Africa for the last 15 years. Smart Monkey TV aims to capture the energy at the crossroads between African culture and technology. MarkLives is syndicating content from Smart Monkey TV on a weekly basis for the column “Smart Africa TV”.— MarkLives’ round-up of top ad and media industry news and opinion in your mailbox every Monday and Thursday. Sign up here!