{"id":5759,"date":"2024-10-18T16:13:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T16:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/esports-is-professional-gaming-a-viable-career-path-for-young-africans\/"},"modified":"2024-10-18T16:13:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T16:13:56","slug":"esports-is-professional-gaming-a-viable-career-path-for-young-africans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/esports-is-professional-gaming-a-viable-career-path-for-young-africans\/","title":{"rendered":"Esports: Is professional gaming a viable career path for young Africans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Esports is on the rise in Africa, led by a tech-savvy youthful population and female pioneers, and life as a professional gamer is now possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kenya&#8217;s Syvlia Gathoni did not have the intention of turning professional but is one of the few full-time pro esports athletes on the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Emmanuel Oyelakin of the African Confederation of Digital Sports predicts a bright future for competitive gaming on the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video by Brian Khisa.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/cgk7vmvydn3o\" class=\"ssrcss-1kta2ux-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">READ MORE: Is Africa the next frontier for esports and pro gaming?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/videos\/c8djz6d83nyo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esports is on the rise in Africa, led by a tech-savvy youthful population and female pioneers, and life as a professional gamer is now possible. Kenya&#8217;s Syvlia Gathoni did not have the intention of turning professional but is one of the few full-time pro esports athletes on the continent. Meanwhile, Emmanuel Oyelakin of the African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5761,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759\/revisions\/5761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}