{"id":236984,"date":"2026-07-02T13:56:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=236984"},"modified":"2026-07-02T13:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:56:26","slug":"what-encounter-with-a-south-african-editor-taught-me-about-nigeria-by-azu-ishiekwene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=236984","title":{"rendered":"What Encounter with a South African Editor Taught Me About Nigeria     By Azu Ishiekwene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Azu Ishiekwene I met him through Ferial Haffajee, a fellow judge on the CNN African Journalist of the Year panel for several years and also a fellow member of the board of the World Editors Forum in those early days. \u00a0 Ferial is one of the most outstanding journalists on the continent&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/newspotng.com\/what-encounter-with-a-south-african-editor-taught-me-about-nigeria-by-azu-ishiekwene\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Azu Ishiekwene I met him through Ferial Haffajee, a fellow judge on the CNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236984-what-encounter-with-a-south-african-editor-taught-me-about-nigeria-by-azu-ishiekwene.png",363,340,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236984-what-encounter-with-a-south-african-editor-taught-me-about-nigeria-by-azu-ishiekwene-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236984-what-encounter-with-a-south-african-editor-taught-me-about-nigeria-by-azu-ishiekwene-300x281.png",300,281,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236984-what-encounter-with-a-south-african-editor-taught-me-about-nigeria-by-azu-ishiekwene.png",363,340,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236984-what-encounter-with-a-south-african-editor-taught-me-about-nigeria-by-azu-ishiekwene.png",363,340,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236984-what-encounter-with-a-south-african-editor-taught-me-about-nigeria-by-azu-ishiekwene.png",363,340,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236984-what-encounter-with-a-south-african-editor-taught-me-about-nigeria-by-azu-ishiekwene.png",363,340,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236984-what-encounter-with-a-south-african-editor-taught-me-about-nigeria-by-azu-ishiekwene.png",363,340,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236984-what-encounter-with-a-south-african-editor-taught-me-about-nigeria-by-azu-ishiekwene.png",363,340,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236984-what-encounter-with-a-south-african-editor-taught-me-about-nigeria-by-azu-ishiekwene.png",363,340,false]},"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\/236984","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=236984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/236985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}