Fengyan Du 杜风彦

Du Fengyan is the editor of Fica News, a documentary director and photographer, and the founder of Fica Vision Ltd, a Nairobi film studio.

Between 2011 and 2013 he cycled alone for 26 months through 22 countries across Asia and Africa, about 35,000 km, reaching Kenya by bicycle in 2013. He has been based in Nairobi since 2022.

In more than a decade of China–Africa documentary work he directed the three-part series Walking Africa (《行走非洲》, for the General Administration of Sport of China), made films for CGTN, CCTV, People's Daily, Phoenix TV, UN agencies and WWF, and has worked as a stringer for CGTN.

He read history (Chifeng University, 2003–2007) and took part in archaeological fieldwork with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Hongshan culture).

Credentials: press card holder; Fica Vision Ltd, which runs Fica News, is registered with the Media Council of Kenya (No. MCKMH1808); registered film agent with the Kenya Film Classification Board (RN-520499); Kenya Civil Aviation Authority remote pilot licence (RPL) — the drone footage in his field reports is his own.