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The African Public Broadcasting Foundation - a legally constituted not-for-profit entity - has been set up to encourage and stimulate social and economic change across sub-Saharan Africa through terrestrial free-to-air television and radio broadcasting.

Arguably, where sub-Saharan Africa is concerned, 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.

The ultimate aim of the African Public Broadcasting Foundation is to provide sub-Saharan Africa’s estimated 600 million people – half of whom are under the age of 18 – with an efficient and sustainable public broadcasting infrastructure that transmits entertaining, informative and educational programming with which audiences can easily identify.

Within a global context of free-to-air network television, sub-Saharan Africa’s broadcasting industry is the last frontier in terms of unrealised potential. Addressing its public service broadcasting needs represents a unique and stimulating challenge for the African Public Broadcasting Foundation.