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Two days after we published the first edition of this tracker, we're adding the map. The timeline gave you chronology. This gives you geography. Click any event and watch it land: which countries did it affect, how many, how far the footprint actually reached, what activity is homegrown versus externally-led. The Showmax closure alone covered 44 markets. The Canal+×Netflix Francophone bundle: 24. Elon Musk's Starlink expansion: 25 and counting. One's understanding may expand when the timeline is plotted across the continent simultaneously and observed. A few things become clearer. The Francophone belt is net positive over this period — more launches than exits. The Anglophone sub-Saharan belt is not. South Africa has the most activity of any single market, and almost all of it is externally-led. Nigeria is active but contested. Much of East Africa is essentially a bystander to everything except the Showmax collapse. Use the filters to isolate what you're looking at. The “net change view” colors the continent by outcome: net positive, neutral, or net negative. Click any country to see its full event list. This is also a canvas. What you see is one layer. We will keep adding: cinema infrastructure, production activity, funding flows, exhibition data, policy, treaties, etc., with a robust analytical layer on top — essentially, screen sector intelligence at the continental and country levels. All of it alive and fresh. That work is already fully underway in the African Film Press (AFP) lab, shaping what African Screen Intelligence (ASI), our flagship research product, will become.
