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Afcon: everything you need to know about a record year for Africa’s biggest football event

January 12, 2024
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By Chuka Onwumechili As a scholar of sports communication with a focus on African football, Chuka Onwumechili is a professor of communications at Howard University. Here is his analysis. Africa’s biggest football festival – the men’s Africa Cup of Nations 2024 – is being hosted by Côte d’Ivoire in west Africa and will culminate in its final

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