The visible China-Africa media story is towers and dishes. The quieter one is people and programming – journalist exchanges, training cohorts and co-production deals that shape how stories get told.
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Uganda by the Numbers: One Country Inside a 10,000-Village Promise
Continental pledges are hard to test. Uganda’s share of the satellite-TV rollout – 900 villages, 18,000 households – is small enough to count and large enough to judge the wider claim.
Grapes to China: How Namibian Fruit Has to Reach the Chinese Shopper
A tariff-free door is not a sale. Namibian grapes still have to survive the cold chain and win a Chinese cart.
Satellite Dishes in the Bush: Where Rural Television Becomes Information Access
A solar-powered dish on a village clinic looks like entertainment. The pitch behind it is something else – basic access to news, weather and public information for places the grid never reached.
10,000 Villages: How a TV Pledge Became Africa’s Largest Media-Access Test
A decade after Xi Jinping pledged satellite TV for 10,000 African villages, nearly all are connected. The screens arrived; the harder questions are about who controls what they show.
Wrong Generation: How an Unfunded Namibian Film Reached Its Audience
No studio bought its billboards. A book, a hashtag and a trailer did the selling instead.
China-Africa Expos: When Headline Deal Values Outrun Signed Contracts
The Changsha expo closed with US$11.4 billion in signed projects and a further US$43 billion merely announced. The gap between the two numbers is the story.
Reselling the Stack: The Huawei Technology MTC Can Now Sell to Namibian Firms
A telco that sold airtime now offers cloud, 5G and intelligent networking. The menu for local business just widened.
Apply Through the Portal: How the SME Fund Runs on Digital Reach
A grant you can only apply for online rewards the firms a programme can reach, and quietly filters the rest.