Cultural barriers to partnership
The soft-side gaps that policy frameworks cannot fix alone: from expectations to decision cultures to language.
Investigative journalism is hard, often thankless work, and it takes its toll. But Benon Herbert Oluka sees its value in the weight it takes off everyone else’s shoulders. Most people going about their day don’t have…
No media is free of influence. What matters is who's doing the influencing, and whether they're telling you about it. In this episode of The Media in Africa Podcast, Georja Calvin Smith speaks to Professor Herman…
As a young journalist, Claus Stäcker stood metres from Nelson Mandela and was too moved to ask a question. Some would call that a missed scoop. He sees it as a lesson in what public service broadcasting should be. In…
African journalism isn’t short on courage but it is short on support. In the sixth episode of The Media in Africa Podcast, Mamaponya Motsai—CEO of fraycollege, a journalism training institute in South Africa—tells host…
Do you work with media and creatives in Africa? Well this one’s for you. And it’s all about money. In this fifth episode, Georja’s joined by former hit show mogul turned streaming and business guru turned popular author…
Drawing on more than two decades of reporting, most of it by bus and motorbike rather than by hired car, Ruud maps the landscape: why he calls the buying and selling of African stories a kind of colonialism, and names…
A proof-of-life video for the Chibok girls, handed to the one reporter still phoning their mothers two years after the news cycle moved on. Rwanda's logo on a Premier League shirt, and the outrage of people who had been…
A DRC bond issue four times oversubscribed, not because investors believed in the country but because the risk priced into it paid so well. A thousand people in the US and the UK who would buy a painting from Africa…
Data so expensive that people choose between connectivity and food. Newsrooms pressured not by censors with scissors, but by governments quietly pulling advertising. And a creator economy about to boom precisely because…
Which themes six leading Africa–Europe think tanks cover, and where the gaps for business are.
These are our key priorities for 2026-2027: the Global Gateway in practice, investment risk penalties, business flows between the continents, cultural barriers to partnership, and the limits of the shared-values…
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