China's Huawei Launches 5G Networks in South Africa and Kenya

 Reuters published on 27 October 2022 an article titled "South Africa's Telkom Launches 5G Network with Huawei."  Telcom launched its 5G high-speed internet network using Huawei technology to compete with larger Vodacom and MTN and smaller Rain in the 5G race.  

Business Daily published on 28 October 2022 an article titled "Safaricom 5G Users to Pay Higher Mobile Data Tariffs."  Kenya's Safaricom has become the first telecommunications company in East Africa to commercially launch 5G high-speed internet service with infrastructure built by China's Huawei and Finland's Nokia.  

Huawei Skill Transfer in Kenya and Nigeria

The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies China Africa Research Initiative published in March 2020 a working paper titled "How Huawei Succeeds in Africa: Training and Knowledge Transfers in Kenya and Nigeria" by Henry Tugendhat.

The study compares Huawei's skill transfer efforts in Kenya and Nigeria. It argues that Huawei treads a fine line between training local engineers and keeping control of its intellectual property.