Why focusing on attendance figures at the 2025 AFCON is the wrong way to measure the tournament.
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Between Bambali and Nagrig
The rivalry between Sadio Mané and Mohamed Salah pushed them to unprecedented heights, but also links two seemingly distant and disconnected villages.
AFCON 2025
Instead of going on our end of the year publishing break, Africa Is a Country will be transitioning to cover the 2025 edition of the African Cup of Nations from Morocco. Follow along with video dispatches on the African Five-a-side podcast.
Culture
What does a museum mean here?
A dispatch from Benin City tells the unfinished story of the Museum of West African Art.
Politics
The missing voices of Western Sahara
At the UN’s annual Western Sahara debate, everyone gets heard except the Sahrawis themselves.
AFCON Archive
Enemies of progress
Delayed, underfunded, and undermined, this year’s Women’s Africa Cup of Nations has exposed not just neglect but active sabotage from CAF and national federations.
Whose game is remembered?
The Women’s Africa Cup of Nations opens in Morocco amid growing calls to preserve the stories, players, and legacy of the women who built the game—before they’re lost to erasure and algorithm alike.
Is AFCON a major tournament?
AFCON doesn’t need European validation to be major—it already is. But the real danger lies in how dismissive narratives shape the value of African football and its players.
Post-Afcon blues
Who else sorely misses the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations? Re-live the excitement from the stands in a short video by the AIAC team.