{"id":14695,"date":"2024-06-04T05:37:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T03:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/04\/africa-has-zero-pr-in-the-west-the-nigerian-influencer-using-sarcasm-on-the-clueless\/"},"modified":"2024-06-04T05:37:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T03:37:19","slug":"africa-has-zero-pr-in-the-west-the-nigerian-influencer-using-sarcasm-on-the-clueless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/04\/africa-has-zero-pr-in-the-west-the-nigerian-influencer-using-sarcasm-on-the-clueless\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Africa has zero PR in the west\u2019: the Nigerian influencer using sarcasm on the clueless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charity Ekezie has made it her mission to educate naive westerners about her continent on social media, and have some fun along the way<\/p>\n<p>When Charity Ekezie first joined TikTok and started posting videos from her home in Abuja, Nigeria, in 2020, she had just left a job at a radio station and thought it might be a good way to keep busy and not let her journalism skills fall away.<\/p>\n<p>Within months, she began to realise from the comments underneath her posts that some people knew nothing about Africa. Commenters from the UK, the US and European countries would ask her how she had a phone or whether there was water in Africa.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/jun\/04\/do-you-have-water-in-africa-charity-ekezie-nigerian-influencer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/11c873a9ca2fdb42c448283a22426761ccf63816\/0_634_4000_2399\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3af0c137770c4045a0f85d1b22c72dc5\" title=\"\u2018Africa has zero PR in the west\u2019: the Nigerian influencer using sarcasm on the clueless\" \/>Charity Ekezie has made it her mission to educate naive westerners about her continent on social media, and have some fun along the way<br \/>\nWhen Charity Ekezie first joined TikTok and started posting videos from her home in Abuja, Nigeria, in 2020, she had just left a job at a radio station and thought it might be a good way to keep busy and not let her journalism skills fall away.<br \/>\nWithin months, she began to realise from the comments underneath her posts that some people knew nothing about Africa. Commenters from the UK, the US and European countries would ask her how she had a phone or whether there was water in Africa. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charity Ekezie has made it her mission to educate naive westerners about her continent on social media, and have some fun along the way When Charity Ekezie first joined TikTok and started posting videos from her home in Abuja, Nigeria, in 2020, she had just left a job at a radio station and thought it &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/04\/africa-has-zero-pr-in-the-west-the-nigerian-influencer-using-sarcasm-on-the-clueless\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Africa has zero PR in the west\u2019: the Nigerian influencer using sarcasm on the clueless<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14695"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}