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Sanaa Kama Biashara
Sanaa Kama Biashara seeks to professionalise performing artists in the Kenyan coastal region, providing them with entrepreneurial skills to optimise their income from their art.
The programme
Art is a business. It should be run like one.
Performing artists on the Kenyan coast earn from work they rarely own on paper. Sanaa Kama Biashara puts the commercial and legal structure around the art — registration, contracts, royalties and the rights that outlive a single performance.
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Register the work
A mark, a recording or a design that is registered can be defended. One that is not, cannot.
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Get the contract right
Producer agreements, splits and licences decided before the money arrives, not after.
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Know the codes
ISRC and the administrative detail that decides whether a royalty ever reaches you.
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Build the business
Structure, tax and the paperwork that turns a career into an enterprise.
On the ground
Where the programme has been
Empowering Creative Minds: Sanaa kama Biashara Capacity Building Program Equips Taita Taveta Creatives with Essential Business and Legal Insights
On Thursday, October 12th, 2023, the Sanaa kama biashara capacity building program conducted its second session for the Taita Taveta…
MMS Advocates · 1 min read
Sanaa Kama Biashara Taita Taveta Edition
On Wednesday, 11th October 2023, the Taita Sanaa Kama Biashara program kicked off with its second cohort in Taita Taveta.…
MMS Advocates · 1 min read
Sanaa Kama Biashara Showcase: Nurturing Artistic Talent in Mombasa
On Saturday, September 16th, 2023, the Sanaa Kama Biashara program by MMS Advocates celebrated a milestone as its inaugural cohort…
MMS Advocates · 2 min read
3:06Naming of trademarks in collaboration with MMS and SKB
06 Feb 2026
In collaboration
Naming of trade marks, with Sanaa Kama Biashara
A working session on choosing a mark that can actually be registered — and what happens when it cannot.
Coast desk
The firm at the coast
Innovation weeks, matchmaking forums, special economic zones and the infrastructure that changes what land is worth.
Mombasa Plastics Prize Incubators Matchmaking Forum
Yesterday, at the Mombasa Plastics Prize Incubators Matchmaking Forum organized by ChallengeWorks, Swahilipot Hub Foundation, and USAID, Felicia Solomon, Partner at MMS, and Mildred Mwanyika, Associate…
MMS Advocates · 1 min read
Intellectual Property and Data Protection in Focus at Pwani Innovation Week
In the heart of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the intersection of law, technology, and innovation takes center stage. At the…
MMS Advocates · 1 min read
Legal and Economic Insights on Dongo Kundu Bypass Opening
The opening of the Dongo Kundu Bypass in Mombasa marks a significant legal and economic milestone for Kenya. From a…
MMS Advocates · 1 min read
MRIMA HILL & DONGO KUNDU SEZ
PART I: MRIMA HILL — KENYA’S KSH 8.1 TRILLION CRITICAL MINERALS ASSET A. Geology and Discovery Mrima Hill is a…
Allan Mzungu · 16 min read
Go Blue
The blue economy, county by county
A county-level examination of the Go Blue project along the Kenyan coast.
- THE GO BLUE PROJECT IN THE BLUE ECONOMY COUNTY 004 (TANA RIVER COUNTY, KENYA)
- The Go Blue Project in the Blue Economy in County 003 (Kilifi County, Kenya)
- KWALE COUNTY 002: THE PEOPLE’S VOICE – SEA TO HILLS
- KWALE COUNTY 002: THE PEOPLE’S VOICE
- KWALE COUNTY 002: THE PEOPLE’S VOICE
- The Go Blue Project in the Blue Economy in Kwale County (County 002): Part 1
- The Go Blue Project in the Blue Economy in Mombasa County (County 001):
- KWALE COUNTY TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
- KWALE COUNTY TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM – FIRESIDE CHATS WITH THE LEGAL GAL
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MMS Advocates has a Mombasa office and a coast practice that goes beyond the file.