Africa: China exports $2 billion in surveillance technology, spreading its digital authoritarianism model across the continent.

Chinese tech giants Huawei, Hikvision, and Dahua dominate Africa's security market with "smart city" packages — facial recognition systems, AI-powered cameras, internet monitoring software, and biometric identification tools.

These technologies are actively used by authoritarian regimes for:

Tracking opposition politicians and activists

Identifying protest participants for post-event repression

Blocking independent news sites and social media

Building social credit-style systems (Rwanda and others)

What is marketed as "security infrastructure" functions as instruments for suppressing opposition, controlling civil society, and restricting fundamental freedoms.

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