The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games was broadcast for the first time on free to air (FTA) television across 49 territories in Sub-Saharan Africa. This article charts the story of this historic development and marks the first study to explore Paralympic broadcast production beyond the cultural specificities of Global North/Western-centric media practices, infrastructure availability and disability discourses. Drawing on an integrated qualitative dataset, including interviews with key individuals from the International Paralympic Committee, TV Media Sport (the broadcast partner) and one national Sub-Saharan broadcaster (Malawi Broadcasting Corporation), this article documents the challenges, logic and politics behind the Sub-Saharan African Paralympic broadcast. In so doing, we consider the extent to which these articulated with epistemic differences, underlying neocolonial sentiments and (mis-)understandings of the geopolitical contours and disability politics of the Sub-Saharan African region. We consider the important role national Paralympic broadcasters may play in the sustainable development of the broadcasts across this region, particularly in relation to its pedagogical value for harnessing progressive localised disability politics, disability activism, and social justice.

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撒哈拉以南非洲的残奥会广播：生产政治和重新想象的后殖民

2020 年东京残奥会首次在撒哈拉以南非洲 49 个地区的免费电视 (FTA) 上转播。本文描绘了这一历史性发展的故事，并标志着第一项超越以北/西方为中心的媒体实践、基础设施可用性和残疾人话语的文化特殊性来探索残奥会广播制作的研究。本文利用综合定性数据集，包括对国际残奥委员会、TV Media Sport（广播合作伙伴）和一家撒哈拉以南国家广播公司（马拉维广播公司）关键人物的采访，记录了残奥会背后的挑战、逻辑和政治。撒哈拉以南非洲残奥会转播。在此过程中，我们考虑这些在多大程度上与认知差异、潜在的新殖民主义情绪以及对撒哈拉以南非洲地区地缘政治轮廓和残疾政治的（错误）理解有关。我们认为，国家残奥会广播机构可能在该地区广播的可持续发展中发挥重要作用，特别是在利用进步的本地残疾人政治、残疾人行动主义和社会正义方面的教学价值。