StarTimes is the primary contractor on Chinese President Xi Jinping's 10,000 Villages Project, a lofty plan to take digital television to impoverished parts of Africa — paving the way for the Beijing-based firm to dominate the African market of 1.2B people
Updated 2139 GMT July 23, 2019In the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, Michael Nganga is watching a Chinese Kung Fu movie.
His small home in Limuru village doesn't have running water and its walls are made from corrugated metal. Yet outside, where chickens roam the yard, the father-of-two, who repairs shoes for a living, has a large Chinese-built satellite dish that connects his old television set to hundreds of channels — many of which are being beamed from Beijing. "It's advantageous to have many TV channels," said Nganga, who was limited to a few local Kenyan stations before the Chinese dish.
Nganga's connection to the wider world is directly thanks to Xi Jinping, the president of China.In 2015, Xi announced the 10,000 Villages Project, a lofty plan to take digital television to impoverished parts of Africa, such as the village where Nganga lives. Previously, television access in many parts of the continent was a privilege of the elite, and those who were connected relied on old-fashioned, snowy analog reception.
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