{"id":350,"date":"2026-05-09T20:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T20:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=350"},"modified":"2026-05-09T20:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T20:52:18","slug":"watching-us-is-like-watching-a-cousin-the-online-creators-reshaping-africas-news-ecosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=350","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Watching us is like watching a cousin\u2019: the online creators reshaping Africa\u2019s news ecosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa is leading a change in news consumption habits  \u2013 and transforming the lives of current affairs enthusiasts<\/p>\n<p>Last year Amahle-Imvelo Jaxa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@jaxxofalltrades_sa\/video\/7465666536175389958\">posted a TikTok video<\/a> about South African peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She explained an argument that had erupted between the South African and Rwandan presidents, then listed roles different South African groups would play in a war with Rwanda: the Sotho strategists, the Xhosa negotiators, the Afrikaner muscle. The video went viral and she racked up 100,000 followers in three days.<\/p>\n<p>This breakout video enabled Jaxa to pivot from being a marketing and restaurant entrepreneur to a \u201cprofessional yapper and current affairs enthusiast\u201d, part of a group of content creators explaining the news to young South Africans who, like many of their global peers, are eschewing traditional news in favour of social media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/09\/africa-influencers-news-consumption-social-media\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa is leading a change in news consumption habits \u2013 and transforming the lives of current affairs enthusiasts Last year Amahle-Imvelo Jaxa posted a TikTok video about South African peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She explained an argument that had erupted between the South African and Rwandan presidents, then listed roles different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}