Colonizing the Mind: How Beijing Snuck Into Africa Through TV and Film

Colonizing the Mind: How Beijing Snuck Into Africa Through TV and Film
Leonard Biegon writes the name of the current Chinese movie showing at his video store at the Ainamoi shopping center, Kenya, on Aug. 24, 2019. Dominic Kirui for The Epoch Times
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AINAMOI, Kenya—On a fine Saturday afternoon at Ainamoi shopping center in Kenya’s Kericho County, Leonard Biegon takes a few colored chalks and sketches the names of the current and upcoming films he’s showing, on a board outside his video store.

Today, a Chinese film named “Twins Mission” is showing in Mandarin, but with a comic translation by a local DJ in Swahili and Sheng (Kenyan slang).