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African Games
Sign in to saveAlso known as All-Africa Games, Pan African Games
African multi-sport event
Wikidata facts
- Continent
- Africa
- Sport
- Olympic sport
- Official website
- www.aag.org.za
- Image
- ASC Leiden - Rietveld Collection - Nigeria 1970 - 1973 - 01 - 087 Pan African Games Lagos January 7-18, 1973. A high jumper hits the bar in the stadium - Lagos.jpg
- Organizer
- African Union
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- topic's main category
- Category:African Games
- Commons category
- African Games
- inception
- 1965-00-00
- event interval
- 4
- topic has template
- Template:African Games
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Encyclopedic overview
The African Games, formally known as the All-Africa Games or the Pan African Games, are a continental multi-sport event held every four years, organized by the African Union with the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa and the Association of African Sports Confederation.
All of the competing nations are from the African continent. The first Games were held in 1965 in Brazzaville, Congo. The International Olympic Committee granted these Games official recognition as a continental multi-sport event, along with the Asian Games and Pan American Games. Since 1999, the Games have also included athletes with a disability.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “African Games” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.