Football Africa covers the continent’s football: the CAF competitions, the national teams, the domestic leagues and African players abroad. This page sets out plainly how the articles on this site are put together, because you are entitled to know that before you decide how much to trust them.
Where the facts come from
Every article is built from human-produced reporting by journalists across Africa and beyond — among others BBC Sport Africa, AllAfrica, KickOff, iDiski Times, Ghanasoccernet, Complete Sports, Premium Times and Africanews. Those sources are named and linked at the foot of every article, so you can read the original reporting for yourself.
We do not use AI to generate facts. Scorelines, goalscorers, minutes, transfer fees, quotes, dates and appearance records come from the cited sources, never from a model’s memory. Before publication every article is checked, claim by claim, against the same source material it was written from; anything that cannot be traced back to a source is cut, and an article that cannot be repaired is not published at all. Where the sources establish an outcome but not the detail, we write around the gap and say so rather than filling it in.
Rumours are reported as rumours, attributed to the outlet carrying them, and never upgraded into fact.
Where AI is used
We use AI tools to structure, draft, format and optimise articles from that sourced material, and occasionally to produce an illustrated cover when no suitably licensed photograph of a subject exists. Illustrated covers are identified as illustrations in the credit line; photographs carry their original photographer and licence.
Two articles are published per day. Each is written to a specific format — a news feature or match report, an explainer, a data-led piece, or a profile — and each carries a short section we call the detail: the tactical, financial or regulatory substance underneath the story, written for readers who follow this football closely rather than casually.
Corrections
An automated desk gets things wrong, and when it does we would rather hear about it than not. If you find an error — a wrong scoreline, a misattributed goal, a fee that was never paid, a player pictured in the wrong shirt — write to [email protected]. We read every message and correct what needs correcting.
— The editors, Football Africa
