{"id":249587,"date":"2026-11-09T23:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T21:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/africa-model-citizens-allafrica-com\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T23:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T21:00:05","slug":"africa-model-citizens-allafrica-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/africa-model-citizens-allafrica-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Model Citizens &#8211; allAfrica.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>The growing political visibility of recent African immigrants in the United States is a standing reproach to dated conceptions of belonging back home.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"93\">Members of the Democratic Party are not the only ones celebrating the party&#8217;s stunning victory in last week&#8217;s midterm elections. Across Africa, where the exploits of African-born Americans are closely monitored, the outcome of the elections has generated considerable excitement. The reaction in Nigeria to the success of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/foreign\/world-foreign\/922855-updated-14-nigerian-americans-secure-victories-in-us-midterm-elections.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fourteen Nigerian-Americans<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611090771.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The growing political visibility of recent African immigrants in the United States is a standing reproach to dated conceptions of belonging back home. Members of the Democratic Party are not the only ones celebrating the party&#8217;s stunning victory in last week&#8217;s midterm elections. Across Africa, where the exploits of African-born Americans are closely monitored, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,42655,7604,9019,257,254,421],"class_list":["post-249587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica-com","tag-citizens","tag-model","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249587","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=249587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}