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Walk into an old stadium in Nairobi on a weekday afternoon and you might find teenagers running drills as if their families’ futures depend on it. Basketball in Africa is no longer a side hobby played on cracked concrete. It is turning into a real industry, with salaries, sponsors and television deals that reach well […]
Something shifted in Morocco this August. Women’s Football in Africa stopped being a side story and became the main event, as Cameroon won a first-ever continental title in a tournament nobody could have predicted. The final in Rabat ended an era in which a handful of famous names kept all the silverware to themselves. A […]
Ask anyone to name the home of the world’s best distance runners and the answer comes fast: Kenya and Ethiopia. But African long-distance running has never really been a two-country story, and the last decade has made that harder to ignore. Runners from Uganda, Tanzania, Eritrea, Morocco, Namibia and Lesotho are now winning medals and […]
Cape Town’s ghosts are back in the conversation, though the cricket should matter more this time. South Africa vs Australia begins in Durban on Friday, the first Test between the two sides on South African soil since the 2018 ball-tampering scandal. It opens a three-match series. Eight Years On, the Noise Has Faded Back in […]
Walk into almost any big European dressing room and you will hear an African accent. Here is the uncomfortable truth behind why African football struggles to develop strong domestic leagues: the continent has become brilliant at making footballers and much weaker at keeping the value those footballers create. Morocco’s run to the 2022 World Cup […]
The countdown to Africa’s biggest football party is under way, and the opening rounds are almost done. CAF has published the AFCON PAMOJA 2027 qualifiers Matchday 1 and 2 fixtures and kick-off times, covering games from September 24 to October 6, 2026, the first stage of the journey for 48 nations. The qualifiers feature 12 […]
A 20-year-old from Potchefstroom has just taken one of cricket’s most famous records away from the Caribbean. Lhuan-dre Pretorius 188 breaks Chris Gayle T20 record, and it happened on home soil in Bloemfontein on Friday, in a CSA T20 Challenge game between the Titans and the Knights. Not in the IPL, not under the floodlights […]
HARARE: Matthews 118 Campbelle 96 West Indies Zimbabwe 2-1 win. That was the shorthand for Wednesday’s series decider, in which the West Indies Women beat Zimbabwe by 91 runs at Harare Sports Club to take the three-match ODI series. Put in to bat, the visitors made 271 for five and then bowled the hosts out […]
LAGOS: Nigeria’s Independence Day has a second headline this year, and it comes with gloves. The Chaos in the Ring Carter Efe vs Speed Darlington fight takes place tonight, October 1, at the Balmoral Hall of the Federal Palace Hotel on Victoria Island, with live coverage on SuperSport. Two Fighters With Something to Prove Balmoral […]
BISSAU/ACCRA: Two of West Africa’s biggest football names went home empty-handed on Tuesday night. The Nigeria and Ghana AFCON 2027 qualifying defeats came within hours of each other, as Guinea-Bissau beat the Super Eagles 3-0 and The Gambia beat the Black Stars 4-2 in Accra. Guinea-Bissau Outplay a Depleted Nigeria In Bissau, Nigeria never found […]
The story of Houphouët-Boigny Stadium creative infrastructure returns begins with a football tournament, but it does not end there. Côte d’Ivoire won the right to host the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, and Abidjan’s Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium needed a major rebuild to stage the final. Afreximbank backed the renovation, which finished in time for the […]
Fans who searched “Salah ruled out Egypt South Sudan AFCON qualifier” this week found an answer that had nothing to do with injury. The Egyptian FA said Mohamed Salah would not travel to South Sudan because the match would be played on artificial turf. Egypt went to Juba without their captain and won 5-0. The […]
Some football moments never leave the pitch. Others end up in group chats, on TikTok feeds and in the way friends tease each other for months. The African football moments that went viral in 2026 came from two very different stages: a chaotic Africa Cup of Nations final in Morocco, and a World Cup in […]
Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda are already guaranteed places at next year’s finals, yet the second round of qualifiers still matters to all three. Matchday 2 runs from 28 September to 6 October, giving the hosts a chance to fix problems well before the tournament arrives in June. How qualification works for the hosts The 48 […]
Few competitions carry as much emotion, politics and pride as the Africa Cup of Nations. What began as a small gathering of three teams in Khartoum has grown into a 24-nation tournament watched across the continent and around the world. Its history mirrors Africa’s own: independence, rivalry, resilience and rising ambition. Humble Beginnings in Khartoum […]
South Africa started their three-match ODI series against Australia on Thursday, September 24, with a convincing 67-run win at Kingsmead in Durban, courtesy of Matthew Breetzke’s 112 and Keshav Maharaj’s four-wicket haul. After winning the toss and electing to field first, South Africa scored 297/8 in 50 overs after recovering from 168/5. Matthew Breetzke played […]
Today, Nigeria will commence their qualifying journey towards the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) as they battle Madagascar. This Group L clash will be staged at Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, to secure all three points at the onset of the qualification stage. This game is very vital since Tanzania, one of the co-host […]
The Nigerian national football team, better known as the Super Eagles, have had some good news before their first AFCON 2027 qualifiers match. Midfielder Raphael Onyedika has reportedly returned to action and is expected to feature after suffering from shoulder trouble at his club, Eintracht Frankfurt. Nigeria will take on Madagascar and Guinea-Bissau this month […]
Burundi’s under-20 football team has been grinding through one of the toughest regional qualifying races on the continent right now. The CECAFA U-20 AFCON qualifiers in Tanzania decide which young East and Central African sides get a shot at continental football, and Burundi wants to be part of that story. For South African fans who […]
