African Contest Wiki

African Contest is a song contest hosted on Instagram since October 2017, inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.

Each country's Head of Delegation gets to select an entry for each edition either by internal selection or national selection. In all editions the participants voted in their semi final (if semis were held) and in the final in order to determine the qualifiers and the winner of each edition.

So far, nine different countries have won the competition and therefore hosted the contest, Ghana being the only country that won the contest twice. Ghana is also the only country that hosted the contest more than once, hosting it 3 times in their capital city Accra. A total of 53 countries competed in the contest so far.

Slogans
Since the first edition slogans were used for the contest. In each edition, the host delegation and the team were in charge to decide the slogan of the edition and based on it, develop the contest's theme and visual design.

Winners
The contest had 10 winners to date. Ghana is the only country so far that has won the contest twice.

Participation
Any full member of the African Union is allowed to send a song for African Contest, along with some non-sovereign territories.

As of E10, fifty-three countries have participated at least once. These are listed here alongside the edition in which they made their debut:

Countries and territories eligible to enter
In total, 63 countries and territories are eligible to participate in the contest. Out of that, 53 have done so as of E10.

African Union
As of E10, forty-nine out of 55 members have participated in the contest at least once. These are the countries eligible to participate, that haven't done so yet:
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Non-sovereign territories
As of E9, four out of 8 non-sovereign territories eligible to participate in the contest did so at least once. These are the territories eligible to participate, that haven't done so yet: