The African/Sport newsroom

How our stories are made

Every article on African/Sport starts from a verified fact: a final score, an official announcement, a public report from an established publication. Our editorial system monitors seventy-eight sports newsrooms across Africa and beyond, around the clock, in addition to our own database of fixtures, tables and player statistics.

The text you read is written by the system in its own words. It is not copied from other publications: the writing process is built to state facts, attribute the original reporting — you will find a source line under every story — and stop where verified information ends. If a story cannot be supported by facts, it is not published.

Human oversight

The system does not run unattended. The publisher supervises what it covers and how, sets the editorial standards it must follow, reviews its output and corrects course when something falls short. The standards themselves are public — see our editorial policy.

We do not attach invented human bylines to machine-written stories. Work produced by our system is signed by the newsroom, honestly.

What we cover

Football first — from the CAF competitions and national leagues of Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya and beyond to the African footballers playing across Europe and the world. Alongside it: boxing, MMA, rugby and athletics, with the continent as our angle.

Everything we publish appears in three languages — English, French and Arabic — so the same story reads the same in Lagos, Dakar and Cairo.

Data behind the stories

Scores, tables, form and player records come from our licensed sports data provider and are updated continuously. Where a story cites numbers, those numbers come from this database — not from another publication’s article.

Mistakes and corrections

Automation does not remove responsibility. When we get something wrong, we correct the story and say so. The corrections process, and how to reach us about an error, is described on our corrections page.