Kenya, 2024: At Radio Yetu in Nakuru a trainee journalist prepares content amid the challenges and opportunities of a media landscape influenced by both local and global forces.
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Chinese Media Engagement with Africa and the Role of African Agency. The Cases of Kenya and Ethiopia
Megatrends Policy Brief 26, 08.07.2024, 8 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2024MTA-PB26
This policy brief delves into China's strategic media engagement across Africa, revealing a dynamic interplay of state and private efforts aimed at reshaping narratives and boosting China's influence. It emphasises the pivotal role of economic and regulatory landscapes, suggesting the necessity of fostering African media independence to safeguard against authoritarian tendencies.
Kenya, 2024: At Radio Yetu in Nakuru a trainee journalist prepares content amid the challenges and opportunities of a media landscape influenced by both local and global forces.
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Kenya's diplomatic strides in a multipolar world, balancing East and West ties, increasingly face scrutiny at home. This policy brief analyzes the divergent views on President Ruto's foreign policy domestically as well as abroad. What role for non-alignment in an environment of global division?
doi:10.18449/2024MTA-PB24
Can developing countries emulate China’s development model? New research based on Afrobarometer survey data reveals surprising insights into popular perceptions. Education, gender, the rural-urban divide and China's economic influence play key roles.
doi:10.18449/2023MTA-WP08