{"id":181218,"date":"2024-09-24T22:03:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T20:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-the-business-of-gaming-how-african-youth-can-tap-into-a-300-billion-industry\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T22:03:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T20:03:26","slug":"kenya-the-business-of-gaming-how-african-youth-can-tap-into-a-300-billion-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-the-business-of-gaming-how-african-youth-can-tap-into-a-300-billion-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: The Business of Gaming &#8211; How African Youth Can Tap Into a $300 Billion Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"79\">The global gaming industry is one of the fastest-growing sectors, projected to reach a staggering $300 billion by 2025. Africa, with its young and dynamic population, is poised to become a major player in this space. According to recent reports, the gaming industry in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to hit $1 billion in revenue by 2024. This growth presents immense opportunities for Africa&#8217;s youth to tap into the industry, not just as consumers but also as creators and entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"79\">A key driver&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409240704.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global gaming industry is one of the fastest-growing sectors, projected to reach a staggering $300 billion by 2025. Africa, with its young and dynamic population, is poised to become a major player in this space. According to recent reports, the gaming industry in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to hit $1 billion in revenue by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":181219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[4338,258,256,4380,6495,23486,8317,4688,430,257,254,21792,6276],"class_list":["post-181218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-business","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-billion","tag-gaming","tag-industry","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tap","tag-youth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}