— T4 · CultureResearch theme

Cultural barriers to partnership

The soft-side gaps that policy frameworks cannot fix alone: from expectations to decision cultures to language.

01 —Publications on this theme8
Sep 2026
Mamaponya Motsai (fraycollege): Safety and ethics in media

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…

Podcast · Media in Africa
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Sep 2026
Marie Lora-Mungai (Restless Global): Economics behind the media and creative industries

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…

Podcast · Media in Africa
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Sep 2026
Ruud Elmendorp (freelance journalist): Partnerships & intentionality of news stories

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…

Podcast · Media in Africa
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Sep 2026
Stephanie Busari (SBB Media): Why local journalism matters?

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…

Podcast · Media in Africa
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Sep 2026
Moky Makura (Africa No Filter): Templates of storytelling and narratives

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…

Podcast · Media in Africa
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Aug 2026
Lisa MacLeod (FT Strategies): Media consumption: who’s looking, where & how?

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…

Podcast · Media in Africa
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Apr 2026
Think Tank Coverage Map

Which themes six leading Africa–Europe think tanks cover, and where the gaps for business are.

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Mar 2026
Research Agenda 2026–2027

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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