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Algiers 1978 - 3 African Games

The need to organize sports games by giving them their African significance and inviting all the independent countries of our continent appeared in 1963 in Dakar, during the last Friendship Games. This is how on July 18, 1965, the first African Games were celebrated for the first time in Brazzaville (Congo), recognized as regional games by the International Olympic Committee. 3,000 athletes from 28 countries registered in 10 disciplines brought exhilarating moments, full of fervor and enthusiasm, to the Congolese people, auguring a path rich in laurels and promises for the 2nd African Games in Lagos (Nigeria, 1973) which definitively affirmed the maturity of the supreme organization of the African sports movement, the CSSA (Higher Council of Sport in Africa), maturity allowing us to look with confidence at the future of African youth sports. Algiers will be for two weeks (from July 13 to 28, 1978), with more than 4,000 athletes from more than 40 countries competing in 12 disciplines, the capital of Africa and will be keen to confirm the historic exploits of African athletes. Hosting the 3rd edition and taking place at a time when Africa plays a leading role in the concert of world sport, Algiers will have the heavy responsibility of raising the standard of African sport ever higher. Algiers, which is already responsible for setting the psychological climate in which the 3rd African Games must take place so that they fully respond to the slogan that defines them: “The 3rd African Games of Algiers, a factor in strengthening African unity and solidarity”.