Africa

===Sports===
[[File:World cup african countries best results and hosts.png|thumb|Best results of African men's national football teams at the FIFA World Cup]]
[[File:Watching South Africa & France match at World Cup 2010-06-22 in Soweto 13.jpg|thumb|Supporters watching the [[2010 FIFA World Cup]] in the township of [[Soweto]], [[South Africa]]]]
Fifty-four African countries have [[Association football|football]] teams in the [[Confederation of African Football]]. Egypt has won the African Cup seven times, and a record-making three times in a row. Cameroon, Nigeria, Morocco, Senegal, Ghana, and Algeria have advanced to the knockout stage of recent [[FIFA World Cup]]s. Morocco made history at the [[2022 FIFA World Cup|2022 World Cup in Qatar]] as the first African nation to reach the semi-finals of the FIFA Men's World Cup. South Africa hosted the [[2010 FIFA World Cup|2010 World Cup tournament]], becoming the first African country to do so. The top clubs in each African football league play the [[CAF Champions League]], while lower-ranked clubs compete in [[CAF Confederation Cup]].

In recent years, the continent has made major progress in terms of state-of-the-art [[basketball]] facilities which have been built in cites as diverse as [[Cairo]], [[Dakar]], [[Johannesburg]], [[Kigali]], [[Luanda]] and [[Rades]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Getting to know Africa's flashy basketball arenas |url=https://www.fiba.basketball/news/getting-to-know-africas-flashy-basketball-arenas |access-date=10 December 2020 |work=[[FIBA]] |date=2 September 2019 |archive-date=7 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107193242/https://www.fiba.basketball/news/getting-to-know-africas-flashy-basketball-arenas |url-status=live }}</ref> The number of African basketball players who drafted into the [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] has experienced major growth in the 2010s.<ref>{{cite news |first=Lee |last=Nxumalo |title=Basketball's next frontier is Africa |url=https://www.newframe.com/basketballs-next-frontier-is-africa/ |access-date=11 January 2021 |work=New Frame |date=20 December 2020 |archive-date=16 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116062357/https://www.newframe.com/basketballs-next-frontier-is-africa/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Cricket]] is popular in some African nations. [[South Africa national cricket team|South Africa]] and [[Zimbabwe national cricket team|Zimbabwe]] have [[Test cricket|Test]] status, while [[Kenya national cricket team|Kenya]] is the leading non-test team and previously had [[One Day International|One-Day International cricket]] (ODI) status (from [[President's Cup 1997-98|10 October 1997]], until [[2014 Cricket World Cup Qualifier#Super Six|30 January 2014]]). The three countries jointly hosted the [[2003 Cricket World Cup]]. [[Namibia national cricket team|Namibia]] is the other African country to have played in a World Cup. [[Morocco]] in northern Africa has also hosted the [[2002 Morocco Cup]], but the national team has never qualified for a major tournament.

[[Rugby union|Rugby]] is popular in several southern African nations. [[Namibia]] and [[Zimbabwe]] both have appeared on multiple occasions at the [[Rugby World Cup]], while South Africa is the most successful national team at the Rugby World Cup, having won the tournament on four occasions, in 1995, 2007, 2019, and 2023. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rugbyworldcup.com/2023/news/608463/rwc-2023-spotlight-south-africa|title=RWC 2023 Spotlight: South Africa ｜ Rugby World Cup 2023|website=www.rugbyworldcup.com|access-date=29 May 2021|archive-date=2 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602213126/https://www.rugbyworldcup.com/2023/news/608463/rwc-2023-spotlight-south-africa|url-status=live}}</ref>