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Games
1965 – 1973 – 1978 – 1987 – 1991 – 1995 – 1999 – 2003 – 2007 – 2011 – 2015 – 2019 – 2023
Sports
Athletics – Archery – Badminton – Baseball – Basketball – Beach Volleyball – Boxing – Canoeing – Chess – Cycling – Diving – Equestrian – Fencing – Football – Gymnastics – Handball – Field hockey – Judo – Karate – Kick-boxing – Netball – Rowing – Sailing – Shooting – Softball – Squash – Swimming – – Snooker – Table tennis – Taekwondo – Tennis – Triathlon – Volleyball – Weightlifting – Wrestling – 3 X 3 Basketball
Editions
Edition | Year | Host city | Host nation | Opened by | Date | Nations | Athletes | Sports | Events | Most gold medals | ||
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1 | 1965 | Brazzaville | Alphonse Massemba | July 18–28 | 30 | 2,500 | 10 | 54 | ||||
– | 1969 | Bamako | Disrupted by military coup | |||||||||
2 | 1973 | Lagos | Yakubu Gowon | January 7–18 | 36 | 12 | 92 | |||||
3 | 1978 | Algiers | Houari Boumediene | July 13–28 | 38 | 3,000 | 12 | 117 | ||||
4 | 1987 | Nairobi | Daniel Arap Moi | August 1–12 | 41 | 14 | 164 | |||||
5 | 1991 | Cairo | Hosni Mubarak | September 20–October 1 | 43 | 18 | 213 | |||||
6 | 1995 | Harare | Robert Mugabe | September 13–23 | 46 | 6,000 | 19 | 224 | ||||
7 | 1999 | Johannesburg | Thabo Mbeki | September 10–19 | 51 | 6,000 | 20 | 224 | ||||
8 | 2003 | Abuja | Olusegun Obasanjo | October 5–17 | 50 | 6,000 | 22 | 332 | ||||
9 | 2007 | Algiers | Abdelaziz Bouteflika | July 11–23 | 52 | 4,793 | 27 | 374 | ||||
10 | 2011 | Maputo | Armando Guebuza | September 3–18 | 53 | 5,000 | 20 | 244 | ||||
11 | 2015 | Brazzaville | Denis Nguesso | September 4–19 | 54 | 15,000 | 22 | 323 | ||||
12 | 2019 | Rabat | King Mohammed VI | August 19–31 | 54 | 26 | 301 | |||||
13 | 2023 | Accra |
Sports
Number | Event | 1965 | 1973 | 1978 | 1987 | 1991 | 1995 | 1999 | 2003 | 2007 | 2011 | 2015 | 2019 |
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Main Sports | |||||||||||||
1 | Athletics | ||||||||||||
2 | Cycling | ||||||||||||
3 | Gymnastics | No | No | No | No | ||||||||
4 | Shooting | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
5 | Swimming | ||||||||||||
Boat Sports | |||||||||||||
6 | Canoeing | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
7 | Rowing | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
8 | Sailing | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
Combat Sports | |||||||||||||
9 | Boxing | ||||||||||||
10 | Fencing | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
11 | Judo | ||||||||||||
12 | Karate | No | No | No | No | ||||||||
13 | Kickboxing | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
14 | Taekwondo | No | No | No | |||||||||
15 | Wrestling | ||||||||||||
16 | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||
Team Sports | |||||||||||||
17 | Baseball | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||
18 | Basketball | ||||||||||||
19 | Field Hockey | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||||
20 | Football | ||||||||||||
21 | Handball | ||||||||||||
22 | Netball | No | No | No | No | No | No | Dem | No | No | No | No | |
23 | Softball | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
24 | Volleyball | ||||||||||||
Racquet Sports | |||||||||||||
25 | Badminton | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||||
26 | Squash | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
27 | Table Tennis | No | |||||||||||
28 | Tennis | ||||||||||||
Other Sports | |||||||||||||
29 | Archery | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
30 | Chess | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
31 | Cue Sports | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
32 | Diving | No | No | No | No | Dem | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
33 | Equestrian | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
34 | Petanque | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
35 | Triathlon | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
Demonstration Sports | |||||||||||||
36 | Nzango | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
37 | Pharaoh Boxing | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Para Sports ( from 2019 African Para Games ) | |||||||||||||
38 | Para Athletics | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
39 | Goalball | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
40 | Para Powerlifting | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
41 | Para Swimming | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
42 | Para Table Tennis | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
43 | Wheelchair Basketball | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |