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As a new year dawns, with it comes the promise of glory for African sportspeople. Continental titles are up for grabs in men's and women's football in 2025, while Rwanda will host some of the ...
Oluwashina Okeleji (born 1 July) is a Nigerian sports journalist who works for BBC Sport. He reports for the BBC World Service Radio, TV and writes regularly for the BBC African football website about the continent's football and stars around the world. He's in regular contact with many top African players and often travels to Europe to meet them.
Mimi Fawaz is a Nigerian-Lebanese sports journalist, show host and presenter who currently works as a sports presenter on Focus on Africa, a BBC news programme broadcast on BBC World News alongside BBC Africa and BBC Sports. She has worked for CNN, ESPN and ITV Television networks.
The award became centred around football from 2001 onwards, Cameroon's Patrick M'Boma was the last person to win it as a sports award. Nigeria 's Nwankwo Kanu and Jay-Jay Okocha , as well as the Ivory Coast 's Yaya Touré and Egypt 's Mohamed Salah are the only players to win the award more than once, with two wins.
Football is the most popular sport in Africa, alongside basketball. Indeed, football is probably the most popular sport in almost every African country, although rugby and cricket are also very popular in South Africa. [1] The first football stadium to be built in Africa was the Alexandria Stadium in 1929. [2]
A national track champion who also represented his country in basketball, Hayatou dedicated most of his life to sports administration and helped to transform the Confederation of African Football ...
The Africa Cup of Nations, commonly abbreviated as AFCON and officially known as the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons, [1] [2] is the main biennial international men's association football competition in Africa. It is sanctioned by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and was first held in 1957. [3]
With the African Footballer of the Year set to be named on Monday, who are among the star names to miss out on the award?