{"id":202192,"date":"2025-07-11T15:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T13:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-tiktok-users-in-ghana-and-zimbabwe-enjoy-making-fun-of-government-why-it-can-have-a-downside\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T15:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T13:01:08","slug":"ghana-tiktok-users-in-ghana-and-zimbabwe-enjoy-making-fun-of-government-why-it-can-have-a-downside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-tiktok-users-in-ghana-and-zimbabwe-enjoy-making-fun-of-government-why-it-can-have-a-downside\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: TikTok Users in Ghana and Zimbabwe Enjoy Making Fun of Government &#8211; Why It Can Have a Downside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Browse the internet or turn on the global news and chances are the coverage of Africa you find is about war, coups, displaced populations and disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Generally, the west and its media are blamed for this negative, <a href=\"https:\/\/lucas.leeds.ac.uk\/article\/definition-and-scope-of-afro-pessimism-mapping-the-concept-and-its-usefulness-for-analysing-news-media-coverage-of-africa-toussaint-nothias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Afropessimistic<\/a> portrayal of the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"76\">Africans have taken strategic steps to repair this negative narrative. An example is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africarising.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Africa Rising<\/a> campaign. It was launched in 2000 by a coalition of African activists and organisations. Its objective was to highlight the role of Africa&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507110005.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Browse the internet or turn on the global news and chances are the coverage of Africa you find is about war, coups, displaced populations and disease. Generally, the west and its media are blamed for this negative, Afropessimistic portrayal of the continent. Africans have taken strategic steps to repair this negative narrative. An example is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661344:f9caded2c13949b2a77f0e14d96f1559:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,51839,12151,10801,4508,4509,6427,7717,257,254,33857,6260,4686],"class_list":["post-202192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-downside","tag-enjoy","tag-fun","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-government","tag-making","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tiktok","tag-users","tag-zimbabwe"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661344:f9caded2c13949b2a77f0e14d96f1559:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202192","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=202192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}