{"id":191184,"date":"2025-02-12T02:41:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T00:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/africa-championing-the-call-to-unlock-africas-creative-economy-through-digital-transformation\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T02:41:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T00:41:51","slug":"africa-championing-the-call-to-unlock-africas-creative-economy-through-digital-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/africa-championing-the-call-to-unlock-africas-creative-economy-through-digital-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Championing the Call to Unlock Africa&#8217;s Creative Economy Through Digital Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"86\">In an era where digital innovation is reshaping global industries, Africa stands at a crucial intersection of culture and technology. With a rich cultural heritage and a rapidly expanding creative sector, the continent has a unique opportunity to harness its artistic and historical wealth for economic growth and global influence. Recognising this potential, <em>Chiemelie Ezeobi<\/em> writes that the Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation (CBAAC) recently convened its 2025 Public Lecture to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502110552.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an era where digital innovation is reshaping global industries, Africa stands at a crucial intersection of culture and technology. With a rich cultural heritage and a rapidly expanding creative sector, the continent has a unique opportunity to harness its artistic and historical wealth for economic growth and global influence. Recognising this potential, Chiemelie Ezeobi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":191185,"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":[249],"tags":[258,256,6287,6880,43535,12150,9633,5762,257,393,254,6240,19587],"class_list":["post-191184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-call","tag-championing","tag-creative","tag-digital","tag-economy","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transformation","tag-unlock"],"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\/191184","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}