{"id":44619,"date":"2026-07-02T15:02:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/07\/02\/france-24-meets-macdi-senegals-star-content-creator\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T15:02:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:02:02","slug":"france-24-meets-macdi-senegals-star-content-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/07\/02\/france-24-meets-macdi-senegals-star-content-creator\/","title":{"rendered":"FRANCE 24 meets Macdi, Senegal&rsquo;s star content creator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>He\u2019s one of Francophone Africa\u2019s most followed influencers. With his humourous content about everyday life, Macdi has drawn a huge number of followers into his enigmatic universe of wild scenarios. Over the last three months he\u2019s gained over two million followers on Tik Tok. He now has some 9 million followers on the Chinese platform which has catapulted him to stardom as the most popular Senegalese influence. In a country where creators usually express themselves in Wolof, the local language, he\u2019s chosen French to appeal to a broader audience. Our correspondent in Dakar, Elimane Ndao, went to meet him.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s one of Francophone Africa\u2019s most followed influencers. With his humourous content about everyday life, Macdi has drawn a huge number of followers into his enigmatic universe of wild scenarios. Over the last three months he\u2019s gained over two million followers on Tik Tok. He now has some 9 million followers on the Chinese platform &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-44619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}