{"id":37133,"date":"2018-03-15T17:15:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T17:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-urges-africans-on-obtaining-sports\/"},"modified":"2018-03-19T10:14:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T10:14:36","slug":"kagame-urges-africans-on-obtaining-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-urges-africans-on-obtaining-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame urges Africans on obtaining sports broadcasting rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Head of State was speaking Thursday in an interactive session with members of the African Union Broadcasting (AUB) gathered in a General Assembly in Kigali<\/p>\n<p>For African broadcasters to be able to broadcast football or other sports, they need to buy rights from European or American companies. <\/p>\n<p>He said that Africans want an African Union that can deliver, and through that aspiration they can\u2019t stand problems like broadcasting rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an embarrassment for example that the rights of Africans playing football in Africa is managed by people outside. There is nothing to be proud of in such a situation. For how long can we continue this way?\u201d Kagame questioned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCountries are paying for broadcasting rights. So, money really isn\u2019t Africa\u2019s problem. Why don\u2019t we use that money for what is right for us and actually reduce the cost?\u201d he urged.<\/p>\n<p>Kagame said that Africans need to occupy their space; otherwise others will occupy it for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho in Africa doesn\u2019t know the problems we have? We can\u2019t keep lamenting over our problems. We know what we need to do for ourselves,\u201d Kagame urged.<\/p>\n<p>He said that for people to speak for themselves they need their own mouth. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t give someone else a signal to speak for you. We need our own content and our own way of transmitting it, not only to Africans but outsiders as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kagame said that they have to encourage analog to digital migration saying that people are less driven by deadlines than the benefits they will get. He said that they should help each other to understand that the switch-over is beneficial for the continent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnalog to digital migration is delayed but we have not forgotten it. I am happy to push for this as chair of the Smart Africa Initiative, and include relevant partners,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24420 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-1979-4c55f.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the African Union Broadcasting (AUB) pose in a group photo with President Paul Kagame\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24421 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/3-1581-573b7.jpg\" alt=\"Kagame chats with members of the African Union Broadcasting (AUB) in Kigali after the  interactive session\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24422 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/7-816-afca4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame has said that African broadcasters have difficulties in obtaining rights to football or other sports telecasting because of the structure of industry, challenges which he said Africans need to confront.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[197],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-john-mbaraga"],"bylines":[{"id":197,"name":"John Mbaraga","slug":"john-mbaraga","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":19}],"contributors":[{"id":197,"name":"John Mbaraga","slug":"john-mbaraga","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":19}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37133"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37133"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}