{"id":845,"date":"2009-04-02T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.africanews.it\/english\/?p=845"},"modified":"2009-04-02T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T10:16:00","slug":"nigeria-two-women-celebrate-africa-traveling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/nigeria-two-women-celebrate-africa-traveling\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: two women Celebrate Africa&#8230; traveling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two <strong>Nigerian young women<\/strong> has started a <strong>tour <\/strong>of<strong> Africa<\/strong> to &#8216;celebrate Africa&#8217; showing the world a Continent that is not only famine and corrupt politicans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here \u2013 they write on their website <strong>celebrateafrica.net<\/strong> \u2013 you\u2019ll see the sights and sounds of Africa, from the eyes of&nbsp;two young women traveling across the continent. No images of starving children, stories of corrupt politicians, famines etc, we&#8221;ve seen enough of that&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>They are <strong>Chioma<\/strong> and <strong>Oluchi Ogwuegbu<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Chioma describe herself as a &#8220;young, vibrant Nigerian woman who has left <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=Lagos&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=36.094886,79.101563&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=7.231699,0.483398&amp;spn=5.65422,9.887695&amp;z=7&amp;iwloc=addr\"><strong>Lagos<\/strong><\/a> for a life on the road&#8221; for adventure and beauty in &#8220;the most exciting continent on earth&#8221;. She plans to volunteer for NGOs in Africa during her tour of the Continent.<\/p>\n<p>Her sister <strong>Oluchi<\/strong> Ogwuegbu describes herself as &#8220;adventurous and independent&#8221;. She has a degree in Economics and, after two years, she <strong>quit her job<\/strong> for a global shipping organization. &#8220;The beautiful continent \u2013 she says on <a href=\"http:\/\/celebrateafrica.net\">celebrateafrica.net<\/a> \u2013 has lovely stories to tell and who better to tell them than Africans themselves. I intend to have a lot of fun, learning and telling these stories with my video camera&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=640\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Nigerian young women has started a tour of Africa to &#8216;celebrate Africa&#8217; showing the world a Continent that is not only famine and corrupt politicans. &#8220;Here \u2013 they write on their website celebrateafrica.net \u2013 you\u2019ll see the sights and sounds of Africa, from the eyes of&nbsp;two young women traveling across the continent. No images [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}