{"id":202988,"date":"2025-07-22T02:37:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-deeper-connection-why-even-landlocked-africans-are-defending-the-seas\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:37:55","slug":"africa-deeper-connection-why-even-landlocked-africans-are-defending-the-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-deeper-connection-why-even-landlocked-africans-are-defending-the-seas\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Deeper Connection &#8211; Why Even Landlocked Africans Are Defending the Seas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em>Early ocean encounters can spark a lasting sense of wonder &#8211; and a deeper recognition &#8211; to help reframe ocean conservation as not just a coastal issue, but a continental one.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">When Autone Mululuma began advocating for ocean protection in Zambia, the response was often baffled curiosity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">&#8220;We are landlocked. How does this matter to us?&#8221; It&#8217;s a question he enjoys answering, often using it to open minds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">As a High Seas Youth Ambassador and founder of Zambia for Ocean, Mululuma turns it into an entry&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507210632.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early ocean encounters can spark a lasting sense of wonder &#8211; and a deeper recognition &#8211; to help reframe ocean conservation as not just a coastal issue, but a continental one. When Autone Mululuma began advocating for ocean protection in Zambia, the response was often baffled curiosity. &#8220;We are landlocked. How does this matter to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":202989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,6752,12402,10916,5050,6505,257,18584,254,881],"class_list":["post-202988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africans","tag-connection","tag-deeper","tag-defending","tag-landlocked","tag-news","tag-seas","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/202988","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}