For initiatives like Kitwe City's, where people could exercise their own initiative, Ernst was supportive. Of course, another reason was that Ernst himself thought highly of the film and television industry's prospects.
East Africa had already begun laying out its film and television industry years ago. Once it controlled the mainstream platforms, everything would basically fall into place. Not only within East Africa but abroad as well, the East African government and the Rhine Royal Family had controlled a number of quite influential media mouthpieces over the years.
Moreover, as an imperialist country in the early twentieth century, East Africa did not need to tolerate the United States, the global overlord, infiltrating its cultural and public-opinion industries for the sake of economic development, as those late-developing countries of later generations had to.
As the current world hegemon, Britain's control and institutional development were nowhere near the level of the United States in Ernst's previous life. Moreover, Britain had already lost its chance to go further. Now, it could only preserve its own interests as much as possible and maintain the systems and rules it had once established for its own benefit.
Unless Britain underwent another industrial revolution and remade itself from the marrow outward, or moved its capital to India. Yet even then, it would be exceedingly difficult for Britain to return to its peak. India might have considerable scale, but the Indian Ocean was no longer Britain's one-man show. East Africa was now capable of checking India's development.
Without overwhelming superiority, on what grounds could East Africa call itself the leader and a great power in international affairs across the Indian Ocean region?
Under the current circumstances, East Africa's sole dominance over the Indian Ocean had basically become an international consensus. There was even a strong possibility that East