Namibia, China signs pact for its biggest solar plant
bloomberg.com
bloomberg.com
eg: https://africasacountry.com/2018/12/the-battles-over-land-in...
and: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/namibian-communities-de...
Fighting the good fight on behalf of benevolant Chinese overlords will no doubt be USofA PMC's (private military contractors) such as Betsy DeVos's brother Erik Prince's Frontier Services Group (or however he's burying his ownerships and interests these days).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_Services_Group
I have no position here other than recognising that such shady machinations are commonplace and under the carpet in 21st century neo colonialism.
(utility scale solar usually requires 5-7 acres per MW, but I am erring on the high side; 8 acres * 100MW)
Local activists in Africa have a low success rate but do have some wins, in advance of such projects happening they can alert communities to join together and resist individuals being forced from land their families have held for many generations, work to get judges that haven't been bought off to have oversight in various districts being targetted, etc.
There's about 20 minutes of coverage of the land issues in The Grab (2022) IIRC https://revealnews.org/the-grab/
On a greater scale a team would be needed to track outside owned projects being launched in a region and invest in community education and activism in order to counter the opposing teams being funded to faux-legally grift land away and the enforcers being bought in (or locals paid) to strong arm evictions, etc.