This year, Africa will host its first Olympics — the Summer Youth Olympic Games, in Dakar, Senegal, from 31 October to 13 ...

While the African continent is well represented at the Summer Olympics, it is a different story at the Winter Games. In Paris in 2024, African athletes won a total of 39 medals, including 13 gold ...

Since July 26, 2024, the world has been abuzz with various 2024 Paris Olympic Games sports events. In Paris, athletes were not the only ones representing the African continent: They were also joined ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sindiswa Mabunda covers the sports landscape in Africa. Oct 31, 2025, 02:45pm EDT Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye (3rd R ...

Africa will get a big improvement on its availability of Olympic pools, with four to be built on the continent in the coming years. The project, announced Friday and first reported by Inside the Games ...

Through the Paris Médias 2024 initiative by French media development agency CFI Médias, several African journalists attended the 2024 Paris Olympic Games to provide diverse coverage of an event that ...

Kenya topped Africa’s medal tally at the 2024 Paris Olympics, as the east African country did at the last two games in 2020 and 2016. Kenya is a dominant force particularly because of the success of ...

The World Track and Field Championships concluded in September. The cradle of humanity is also the cradle of athletic greatness. Africa has given the world marathon champions from Kenya, sprinters ...

Ghana's Akwasi Frimpong takes part in a training session for the men's skeleton event in the 2018 Olympics. (Kirill KudryavtsevAFP | via Getty Images) For those not familiar with the sport of skeleton ...

South Africa is throwing its hat into the ring for the 2036 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. The country is officially an ‘Interested Party.’ This marks the beginning of a long and exciting ...

For those not familiar with the sport of skeleton, where the solo sledder lies flat on their stomach, head first, Akwasi Frimpong sums it up: "You're on a cookie sheet sled and it's like 'dude, good ...