African Public Broadcasting Foundation (APBF)

APBF is actively creating an extensive partnering relationship framework at both global and African regional levels with governments and the necessary agents of change to realise an effective public service broadcasting matrix spanning sub-Saharan Africa. The organisation also assists in creating an institutional framework that will enable the effective capacity building of the free-to-air broadcasting environment across sub-Saharan Africa.

In the 2004 - 2005 academic year, the APBF partnered with the Harvard University's Committee on African Studies, which serves as a knowledge base for development-oriented programmes for broadcasting in Africa. This committee sponsors the Africa initiative, an interdisciplinary research, teaching, and outreach project that revolves around five key themes - Health, Healing and Ritual Practice; Governance, Power and Authority; Human Capital and Economic Growth; Realms of Knowledge, Memory and Contestation; and African Creativity: Popular Culture, Performance and Art. This initiative is the main driver of the APBF's intellectual capital.

The African Broadcasting Network also provides free-to-air programming that is both entertaining and educational. It plans to roll out broadcasts in various countries in three phases, eventually covering the majority of the continent. The network's programming combines a line-up of entertainment-based shows such as Bollywood and Nollywood movies, Telenovelas, English and American sitcoms, soaps and faith-based programmes, as well as in-house commissioned light entertainment, with high quality internationally and locally produced educational content.

According to organisers, public service broadcasting is one of the most effective and economically efficient tools that can be used to inform, motivate, and educate Africans to work for their own development.