{"id":14115,"date":"2022-01-20T20:48:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T20:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist"},"modified":"2022-01-20T21:03:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T21:03:34","slug":"malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist","title":{"rendered":"Malawians take over BBC social media pages over coverage deemed racist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Malawians have taken over British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) social media pages, demanding an apology from the media company over its Facebook post about President Lazarus Chakwera\u2019s pledge to the Malawi National Football Team.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Malawi faced Senegal at the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) and before the match Chakwera pledged millions of Kwacha to the team if the Flames qualified to the next round of the AFCON.<\/p>\n

The BBC News Africa Facebook page asked its followers about the gift posting: \u201cShould Malawi\u2019s football team be paid a gift by the president to play against Senegal?\u201d<\/p>\n

The post attracted thousands of Malawian social media users, some of whom accused the BBC of racism. Other commenters said the BBC would not have asked such a question if it were a political leader in Britain offering the gift. Many commenters were also quick to point out that the BBC had misrepresented what the president said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am somewhat puzzled by this article that surmounts to poor reporting in the least and an outright attempt to mislead the masses at most. Given that the President tweeted in English, I would expect that your learned journalists would not have struggled to understand exactly what was meant especially in the most literal context. The President is not gifting the players anything for playing against Senegal but gifting them the said money if they win and qualify for the knockout stages, which isn\u2019t a concern to us Malawians,\u201d said Leon Chimboni Soko.<\/p>\n

Since Tuesday, Malawians have been camping on the BBC News Africa page commenting on every post about their demand for an apology from BBC. One Malawian, Francesco John Mpambe Jr, has since started a petition which also seeks an apology from BBC News Africa and demands the media company to delete the post within 7 days.<\/p>\n

Social media influencer Pemphero Mphande who confirmed signing the petition faulted the BBC for labeling the President\u2019s pledge to Flames players as payment.<\/p>\n

He wrote: \u201cI like this narrative because these \u201cwestern\u201d media are fond of poor reporting that looks down on African countries. It\u2019s bigger than just Malawi. It\u2019s about safeguarding our African interests. I urge you all to sign. Let\u2019s hit 100,000 signatures. Africa shall not be looked down upon!\u201d<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Malawi<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. Malawians have taken over British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) social media pages, demanding an apology from the media company over its Facebook post about President Lazarus Chakwera\u2019s pledge to the Malawi National Football Team. On Tuesday, Malawi faced Senegal at the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) and before the match Chakwera pledged millions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":14114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[233,371,1368,739,306,234,369],"class_list":["post-14115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-bbc","tag-flames","tag-lazarus-chakwera","tag-malawi","tag-social-media"],"yoast_head":"\nMalawians take over BBC social media pages over coverage deemed racist - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Malawians have taken over British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) social media pages, demanding an apology from the media ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Malawians take over BBC social media pages over coverage deemed racist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Malawians have taken over British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) social media pages, demanding an apology from the media ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-20T20:48:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-01-20T21:03:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/img-61e9ce0686afc.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"479\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Malawians take over BBC social media pages over coverage deemed racist\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-20T20:48:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-20T21:03:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist\"},\"wordCount\":402,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/img-61e9ce0686afc.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"BBC\",\"flames\",\"Lazarus Chakwera\",\"Malawi\",\"social media\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist\",\"name\":\"Malawians take over BBC social media pages over coverage deemed racist - Malawi\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/img-61e9ce0686afc.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-20T20:48:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-20T21:03:34+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Malawians have taken over British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) social media pages, demanding an apology from the media ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/img-61e9ce0686afc.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/img-61e9ce0686afc.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":479,\"caption\":\"Malawians take over BBC social media pages over coverage deemed racist\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Malawians take over BBC social media pages over coverage deemed racist\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/\",\"name\":\"Malawi\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Malawians take over BBC social media pages over coverage deemed racist - Malawi","description":"Malawians have taken over British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) social media pages, demanding an apology from the media ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Malawians take over BBC social media pages over coverage deemed racist","og_description":"Malawians have taken over British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) social media pages, demanding an apology from the media ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist","og_site_name":"Malawi","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-01-20T20:48:34+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-01-20T21:03:34+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":479,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/img-61e9ce0686afc.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Malawians take over BBC social media pages over coverage deemed racist","datePublished":"2022-01-20T20:48:34+00:00","dateModified":"2022-01-20T21:03:34+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist"},"wordCount":402,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/img-61e9ce0686afc.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Malawi","BBC","flames","Lazarus Chakwera","Malawi","social media"],"articleSection":["all news","community","homepage-english"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist","name":"Malawians take over BBC social media pages over coverage deemed racist - Malawi","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/img-61e9ce0686afc.jpg","datePublished":"2022-01-20T20:48:34+00:00","dateModified":"2022-01-20T21:03:34+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Malawians have taken over British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) social media pages, demanding an apology from the media ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/img-61e9ce0686afc.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/img-61e9ce0686afc.jpg","width":720,"height":479,"caption":"Malawians take over BBC social media pages over coverage deemed racist"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawians-take-over-bbc-social-media-pages-over-coverage-deemed-racist#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Malawians take over BBC social media pages over coverage deemed racist"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/","name":"Malawi","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}