| African Contest | |
|---|---|
| Information | |
| Genre | Song contest |
| Created by | @esc.gravity |
| Country of origin |  Ireland
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| Original language(s) | English |
| Hosted by | |
@esc.gravity @escfuego (8-) @esc_puffin (1-9) @meschdi (6-8)
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| About | |
| Location(s) | Various |
| Original run | October 2017 – present |
| Edition(s) | 10 (so far) |
| Participation and Voting | |
| System | Each participant awards 12, 10, 8-1 points to 10 of their favourites. |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Asia Pacific Song Contest |
| External links | |
| Official Instagram | |
| Official Website | |
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.
| Edn. | Host city | Slogan |
|---|---|---|
| E1 |  Accra
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"Rhytm Inside" |
| E2 |  Lusaka
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"We Are Dreamers" |
| E3 |  Harare
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"Roar" |
| E4 |  Saint-Denis
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"Aspire" |
| E5 |  Cairo
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"Sand Storm" |
| E6 | Accra
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"Crystallize" |
| E7 | Accra
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"#Soaring" |
| E8 |  Casablanca
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"C'est la vie" |
| E9 |  Brazzaville
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"Alive" |
| E10 |  Freetown
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"Feel the Roar" |
| E11 |  Carthage
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TBD |
Winners[]
The contest had 10 winners to date. Ghana is the only country so far that has won the contest twice.
| Edition | Host City | Winner | Head of Delegation | Performer | Song | Margin | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E1 | Accra
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Zambia
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@israeleurovision | Emeli Sandè | "Hurts" | 15 |  Tanzania
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| E2 | Lusaka
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Zimbabwe
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@escmarci | Martin Solveig ft. Tkay Maidza | "Do It Right" | 4 | Egypt
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| E3 | Harare
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Réunion
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@luxiability | Tess | "Love Gun" | 22 |  Namibia
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| E4 | Saint-Denis
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Egypt
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@esc_puffin | Malak | "Rule the World" | 8 |  Madagascar
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| E5 | Cairo
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Ghana
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@esc.gravity | Ivy Quainoo | "Wildfires" | 12 | Morocco
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| E6 | Accra
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Ghana
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Nico & Vinz | "Am I Wrong" | 20 | Tanzania
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| E7 | Accra
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Morocco
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@israeleurovision | Bouchra | "Deja Vu" | 36 | Zimbabwe
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| E8 | Casablanca
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Congo
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@rhytmvision_ | Madame Monsieur ft. Youssoupa | "Tournera" | 2 |  Somalia
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| E9 | Brazzaville
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Sierra Leone
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@esc_meme | Mabel & Not3s | "Fine Line" | 3 | Morocco
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| E10 | Freetown
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Tunisia
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@escfuego | Cheraze ft. Tunisiano | "Promets pas la lune" | 66 |  Liberia
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| E11 | Carthage
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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:
| Edition | Country making its debut |
|---|---|
| E1 |  Algeria,  Angola,  Burkina Faso, Congo, Egypt,  Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar, Morocco, Namibia,  Nigeria,  Rwanda,  Senegal,  South Africa,  Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia,  Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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| E2 |  Ivory Coast,  Kenya,  Libya,  Togo
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| E3 |  Cameroon,  Central African Republic,  DR Congo,  Mali, Réunion, Sierra Leone
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| E4 |  Canary Islands,  Cape Verde, Liberia,  Mozambique, Somalia
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| E5 |  Comoros,  Gambia,  Mauritania
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| E6 |  Madeira,  Malawi
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| E7 |  Eritrea
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| E8 |  Chad,  Mauritius,  Melilla,  South Sudan
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| E9 |  Botswana,  Djibouti,  Equatorial Guinea,  Guinea
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| E10 |  Benin,  Eswatini,  Guinea-Bissau,  Niger
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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:
Burundi- Gabon
- Lesotho
- Western Sahara (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic)
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Seychelles
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:
- Ceuta
- Mayotte
- Pelagie Islands
- Saint Helena
