In a single production cycle, MMF Studio Africa’s work appeared across two of the world’s most significant content platforms — Netflix and a Paramount-commissioned broadcast series — on two productions that between them won five major awards at three of Africa’s most respected screen industry events.
The tally: To Kill a Monkey swept the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards with Best Supporting Actor, Best Editor, and Best Cinematography. MTV Shuga Mashariki Season 2 claimed Best Scripted Series at the AMVCA and the People’s Choice Award at the Kalasha International Film and Television Festival — Kenya’s premier screen industry honours, and the most direct measure of how deeply a production connects with the audience it was made for.
Five awards. Two continents of production. One post house in Nairobi connects both.
Two Productions, Two Roles
These were not similar projects, and the work was not the same.
MTV Shuga Mashariki Season 2 is a Kenyan youth drama — Paramount-commissioned, produced for Citizen TV, BET, and YouTube — built around a mission to shift attitudes and spark conversations among young Kenyans on health, identity, and gender. MMF Studio Africa’s Monicah Mugo edited Episode 2, bringing to that role not just picture cutting, but sound design and music selection supervision across both the series’ original 25Flow soundtrack and a vast licensed catalogue. The approach reflects a core MMF Studio Africa conviction: an offline editor who understands the full post chain — picture, sound, and music working as one — delivers a qualitatively different, and qualitatively better, product.
Louiza Wanjiku, our former lead editor and partner, was also an offline editor in Shuga’s Season work team.
To Kill a Monkey is the Nigerian crime thriller — eight episodes on Netflix, directed by Kemi Adetiba, following Efemini Edewor’s moral unravelling inside the Lagos cybercrime world. MMF Studio Africa’s role here was Post Supervisor — a broader creative function that placed the company at the centre of the editorial team’s narrative decision-making. Shaping pace across eight episodes. Protecting character. Ensuring the visual storytelling was meeting the story’s emotional demands at every turn.
Different roles, different genres, different markets. The same fundamental question is underneath both: Is this story becoming the best version of itself?
The Geography of the Work
There is something worth naming directly in the combination of these two credits.
MTV Shuga Mashariki Season 2 is a Kenyan story, made in Nairobi, commissioned by African Post Office. To Kill a Monkey is a Nigerian story, produced in Lagos by KAV. MMF Studio Africa is a Nairobi-based company.
The ability to contribute meaningfully to post-production on a Lagos-originated Netflix series — to be in the cutting room on a Kemi Adetiba production, shaping narrative on a project that would go on to win three AMVCA awards — is not a coincidence. It reflects a structural shift underway across African creative industries.
The pan-African content economy, driven by platforms operating at continental and global scale, is redrawing the map. The era in which post-production was geographically bound — Nigerian productions staying in Lagos, Kenyan productions staying in Nairobi — is ending. What platforms like Netflix, DSTV, and Showmax demand is craft, reliability, creative intelligence, and the ability to meet international delivery standards regardless of where the footage originated. Talent travels. Reputation travels further.
MMF Studio Africa is built for that map.
What the Awards Mean — and What They Don’t
Awards are not the point of the work. They are, at best, a moment of industry consensus — a signal that the craft visible on screen was recognised by people who understand what it costs to get it there.
But five awards across two productions, at the AMVCA and the Kalasha, do say something specific. The AMVCA Best Editor for To Kill a Monkey was the first post-production award in Kemi Adetiba Visuals’ history as a company. The People’s Choice Award for Shuga Mashariki at Kalasha was the Kenyan audience — not a jury, not an industry panel — choosing this series above all others.
Together, they are evidence of a maturing African screen industry: one that is beginning to recognise post-production as authorship, and one whose audiences are sophisticated enough to reward the difference between content that is technically assembled and content that is genuinely crafted.
That distinction is what MMF Studio Africa has always worked toward.
The MMF Studio Africa Standard
The credits on these two productions — and the awards that followed — are not the ceiling. They are a reference point.
We are a post-production company that takes story seriously. From the offline edit through sound design, music supervision, post-supervision, and final delivery — our measure is always the same: is this the best version of what this story can be?
To Kill a Monkey is streaming on Netflix. MTV Shuga Mashariki Season 2 is on Citizen TV and YouTube. Both productions stand as evidence of what post-craft, applied with intention, looks like at the highest level of African screen production.
The continent is watching. We are in the cutting room.
MMF Studio Africa Ltd is a Nairobi-based production and post-production company with credits across Netflix, BBC, DSTV, Showmax, Arte, Goethe-Institut, and more. We work across film, television series, documentary, and branded content — from pre-production through to final delivery.
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