{"id":232503,"date":"2026-05-06T16:19:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ethiopia-african-digital-icon-wode-maya-returns-to-addis-for-asmis-summit\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T16:19:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:19:01","slug":"ethiopia-african-digital-icon-wode-maya-returns-to-addis-for-asmis-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ethiopia-african-digital-icon-wode-maya-returns-to-addis-for-asmis-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: African Digital Icon Wode Maya Returns to Addis for Asmis Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Addis Ababa \u2014 Renowned African digital storyteller Wode Maya has arrived in Addis Ababa to participate in the African Social Media Influencers Summit (ASMIS), bringing with him not only global recognition but a deeply personal connection to Ethiopia that helped shape his remarkable journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The summit, which convenes some of Africa&#8217;s most influential digital voices, is designed to foster collaboration, exchange ideas, and advance a unified effort to redefine how the continent is perceived&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605060456.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>Addis Ababa \u2014 Renowned African digital storyteller Wode Maya has arrived in Addis Ababa to participate in the African Social Media Influencers Summit (ASMIS), bringing with him not only global recognition but a deeply personal connection to Ethiopia that helped shape his remarkable journey. The summit, which convenes some of Africa&#8217;s most influential digital voices, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":232504,"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":[4507],"tags":[10713,258,256,4380,54344,9633,4716,4509,6699,42749,257,5068,254,5757,54343],"class_list":["post-232503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-addis","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-asmis","tag-digital","tag-ethiopia","tag-ghana-news","tag-icon","tag-maya","tag-news","tag-returns","tag-south-africa-today","tag-summit","tag-wode"],"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\/232503","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=232503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}