African Exploitation Videos Are Big Business on Chinese Social Media
The China in Africa Podcast
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Live Streaming in Africa - What's Going on in China?
Vila: There is a very wide spectrum of Chinese content creators in Africa and in China creating some of this content. And it really extends from, you know, the highly exploitative to what we've seen also to a lot of Chinese streamers who genuinely want to show a more authentic, more accurate side of life in Africa. Now many of them have been swept up in what has been a Chinese crackdown. Vila: I saw kind of like a quiet practice across different Chinese social media platforms. It was it looks like something that was ordered by the government.
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