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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Consumers
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.
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.
The Desert Miracle: Moakanyi Magazine | Vol 06 Issue 01 | June 2026
Our June 2026 issue is out. How Duma Boko is re-architecting Botswana - from a diamond-dependent rentier state into a sovereign-equity economy built to rival the Gulf - and what that turn asks of everyone doing business here. Botswana is doing something most resource...
Brand safety
With the World Bank trimming global growth and warning of worse if conflict spreads, Botswana brands face a simple discipline: say less, and say it carefully.
Botswana digital consumer
A new digital tax and shifting payment habits are doing something policy alone could not: pulling Botswana’s online market out of the informal shadows.
Trust as conversion
On Botswana’s digital platforms, trust has stopped being a soft value and become a hard one – it now decides whether the customer actually completes the payment.
B2B marketplaces
Resilient world trade is opening a quieter opportunity for Botswana: moving wholesale procurement online, where small firms can source like big ones.