{"id":231756,"date":"2026-06-09T18:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=231756"},"modified":"2026-06-09T18:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:55:12","slug":"how-sports-betting-became-a-multi-billion-dollar-industry-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=231756","title":{"rendered":"How Sports Betting Became a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A decade ago, sports betting in Africa was largely offline, loosely organised. It wasn\u2019t this smooth, mobile-first system people use today. It was rough around the edges. Then, to be able to bet, you had to do so at a kiosk. Other times, just a stand with a few people gathered around&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/businesselitesafrica.com\/how-sports-betting-became-a-multi-billion-dollar-industry-in-africa\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade ago, sports betting in Africa was largely offline, loosely organised. It wasn\u2019t this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231756-how-sports-betting-became-a-multi-billion-dollar-industry-in-africa.webp",1200,768,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231756-how-sports-betting-became-a-multi-billion-dollar-industry-in-africa-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231756-how-sports-betting-became-a-multi-billion-dollar-industry-in-africa-300x192.webp",300,192,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231756-how-sports-betting-became-a-multi-billion-dollar-industry-in-africa-768x492.webp",640,410,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231756-how-sports-betting-became-a-multi-billion-dollar-industry-in-africa-1024x655.webp",640,409,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231756-how-sports-betting-became-a-multi-billion-dollar-industry-in-africa.webp",1200,768,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231756-how-sports-betting-became-a-multi-billion-dollar-industry-in-africa.webp",1200,768,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231756-how-sports-betting-became-a-multi-billion-dollar-industry-in-africa-1024x655.webp",1024,655,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231756-how-sports-betting-became-a-multi-billion-dollar-industry-in-africa-825x575.webp",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231756-how-sports-betting-became-a-multi-billion-dollar-industry-in-africa-590x410.webp",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/231757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}