Africa: African Broadcasting in a Time of COVID-19 - Reports From the Front Line in Ghana, Kenya and Rwanda

A month ago I wrote an article trying to anticipate the impact of Covid-19 on African broadcast. What follows is the first of a series of articles looking at how this impact is… Read more »

Kenya: Tifa Research Pitches Passive Research As the Next Stage of Understanding Audience Behavior

The increase in the use of smartphones is beginning to revolutionize African TV audience research. Kenya's TIFA Research has been pioneering passive research as a way of improving… Read more »

Kenya: New Report Shows That Digital Migration and Online Have Disrupted the Kenyan Media Landscape - Find Out the Winners and Losers

There have major changes in the Kenyan media landscape and a just published report by Reelforge and TIFA Research provides many useful insights into what's changed. Russell… Read more »

Africa: Google and Facebook Get Into African Submarine Cables

The first generation of African submarine cable building is over and with the announcement of Google and Facebook cables, the second generation of cable building begins. Russell… Read more »

Africa: African Public Broadcasters Facing a Financial Crunch - Different Circumstances and Common Threads but a Worrying Trend

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Kenya: #MsPresident Reality TV Series Gets Down to the Final 40

Edutainment reality TV shows nearly always do remarkably well and the new Ms President series in Kenya appears to be no exception. Kenyans often seem obsessed by electoral politics… Read more »

Kenya: Angani Turns Talk Into Business As the Transition to the Cloud Begins to Take Wing

There was a time when if you could have had US$100 for every time there was a mention of the cloud at a conference, you would have been a very rich man. But it was largely talk… Read more »

Kenya: The Digital Life of Kenya's Smallholder Farmers

Once upon time, Africa's mobile users did only two things: they made voice calls or they sent SMS messages. Nowadays a large number of them have transitioned to something that… Read more »

Kenya: Free Wi-Fi Service Targets Bus, Matatu Users in Nairobi, Kigali

Kenya's growing number of data users tread a fine line between using free data and paying for access: they want the digital services that data brings but not the cost of being… Read more »

Africa: Multichoice's Talent Factory Academy Opens in Lagos, Lusaka and Nairobi and Aims to Take 60 Chosen Film-Makers 'To the Next Level'

Africa's film and TV industry does not have a lack of raw talent but in many countries it has simply not had the breadth of experience you might find elsewhere. As part of its… Read more »

Kenya: Three Kenyan Operators Seeking to Extend the Internet to New Groups of People

Africa's ISPs are not well known for innovating in data markets dominated by mobile operators. Most survive on a diet of corporates and high-end household users. But now Kenya has… Read more »