r/Africa

> For years, Bolloré Africa Logistics (BAL) was one of the most important private companies in the sector. Before it changed ownership in 2022 and later became Africa Global Logistics, BAL controlled 16 container terminals, 2,700 km of railways and logistics hubs across more than 40 African countries.

> Starting in 2020, the Canal+ media group – which Bolloré controls through his majority stake in the Vivendi conglomerate – began buying shares in MultiChoice, Africa's largest subscription TV service. It acquired it fully in 2025.

Hello Guys, Hope you are all well

I realize that the African Film Industry is lagging behind if compared to other film industries. I mean take a look at local TV chanels and you'll see what am talking is true. The most popular film/series are mostly non African ones. You think there will come a day that African film industry will also be able to captivate African audience the same way Non African film industry did ? I yearn for that day to come.

What do you guys think ? Or are my views biased ?

Communities living near the epicentre of a growing Ebola outbreak in north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have described rising fear and uncertainty, as the World Health Organization (WHO) warns that infections may be spreading faster and more widely than initially recorded.

The name Africa originates from ancient Romans who used Africa to identify what is now modern day Tunisia. Then European cartographers eventually applied the word to name the entire continent.

Its high time we stop doubting the African-ness of North Africa. Africa is diverse and its home to ppl of various races. Okay guys ?

Unfortunately due to European and Arab (I think) colonisation, Africa suffers from internalised anti-blackness. I would like to know what countries are the least anti-black

> Swiss tourists are among the worst abusers of young girls and boys in Kenyan holiday coastal resorts, according to a report issued on Tuesday. The joint United Nations Children’s Fund, Unicef, and Kenyan government report says up to 15,000 12-to-18-year-olds from four coastal districts exchange casual sex for cash.

African cities are growing at a speed the world has never seen before. Lagos, Kinshasa, Dar es Salaam adding thousands of people every single week. By 2050 some of these will be the largest cities on earth.

And right now, in the middle of all that growth, they're quietly choosing to build suburbs and highways.

Yeah.

The insane part is they can see exactly what went wrong elsewhere.

Western cities spent the entire 20th century building car-dependent sprawl and are now spending billions trying to undo it. Removing highways. Retrofitting transit. Desperately rezoning suburbs. It's slow, expensive, and politically brutal.

Africa hasn't built that infrastructure yet. The roads that will define these cities for a century are still being planned. The zoning laws are still being written. This is an almost unique window to just... not make the same mistake.

Instead, a lot of governments are building new car-centric capital cities from scratch, clearing dense walkable neighborhoods to make room for ring roads, and generally copying the American model at the exact moment America is trying to escape it.

The irony is brutal because the good stuff already exists.

The informal dense neighborhoods that planners in Houston would genuinely dream about mixed use, walkable, full of street life are already there. They're being demolished to build roads.

Yes the living conditions in many of them are bad and need investment. But the structure is exactly what good cities are made of. Instead of upgrading them, many governments are flattening them.

The window is closing fast. Infrastructure locks cities in for generations. This isn't really a debate for 2040 by then the concrete will already be poured.

ask yourself do you want you cities to look like copenhagen and tokyo or houston and dallas