Binetou Sylla is a French-Senegalese executive music producer and author, founder and director of the independent label Wèrè Wèrè Music, which she runs from Paris and Lagos. She spent ten years at the head of Syllart Records, the label founded by her father Ibrahima Sory Sylla, where she rebuilt the contractual base of a catalogue of more than 30,000 tracks, cleared its rights, digitised its masters and brought the label’s YouTube channel close to two million subscribers, and she went on to lead Def Jam Africa for Universal Music France. A former music columnist for Le Monde, co-author of Le Dérangeur and co-producer of the podcast Piment on Radio Nova, she works between Paris and the continent to build lasting structures for African music.