About Us

AthleticsAfrica.Com provides up-to-date news and information about African athletes, administrators and officials nationally and internationally throughout the day as close to real-time as possible 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

And it offers incisive features and articles written by the editors and sourced from freelance reporters and athletics experts across the continent.

AthleticsAfrica.Com is managed by Yomog Sports Media (YSMedia Ltd) Group - A sports news, design and media management company headquartered in Lagos, with commercial outlets in the UK and USA.

This website was originally prepared in partial fulfillment of the award of MA in Web Journalism 2003-2004 at the department of Journalism studies, University of Sheffield, UK.

And was designed and developed by the Editor, Yomi Omogbeja, a Finalist at the The Press Gazette UK student Online Journalist of the Year Award 2004.

Site Team

Managing Editor -  Yomi Omogbeja

Opinion Editor   - Francis Ngwa-Niba

Editorial Consultant - Albert Kobby Mensah

HR Administrator - Toyin Abidakun

Contributors -

  • Adekunle Owolabi (Johannesburg)
  • Motunde Smith (Abuja)
  • Leila Gichinga (Nairobi)
  • Rob Mandje (Colorado)
  • Sunny Oluku (Lagos)
  • Dr. Yemisi Akinbobola (Birmingham)

Thank you for taking time out to visit our site.