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TURNING ATHLETES INTO SUPERSTARS AND CREATING LONG-LASTING BONDS AMONG ATHLETES. “I am a star.” Shouts the overjoyed Bakayoko Abiba, the SH6 Ivorian player.” “The BWF Female Participation Grant has changed my status in life.” “I never dreamt that one day in my life, I Bakayoko would ever board a plane.” She tells BCA Tv…
SPLENDID PERFORMANCE BY THE IVORIANS IN THE MIXED DOUBLES SL3-SU5 CLASS. The pairing of Deada Jean Yves Yao and Masere Junior Beda produced one of the exciting matches of the day. Pairing up for the first time, the duo faced the Spanish pair of J. Polo and Sandhez De Lechina in a three-game thriller…
7 YEARS ON, AND DR. KINGSLEY METU FROM NIGERIA IS STILL PASSIONATE ABOUT DEVELOPING PARA BADMINTON IN AFRICA. The BWF Para badminton classification panel currently consists of 13 International classifiers under the able leadership of Dr. Shamsul Azhar Shah from Malaysia. A Para athlete himself, Dr. Shamsul has been very instrumental to the growth…
MARY NADINE, THE NEW AMBASSADOR HERALDING PARA BADMINTON IN THE MAROUA AREA OF CAMEROON. Despite traveling over 1000 km to attend the recently concluded BWF Level 1 coaching course in Yaoundé, Cameroon, Mary Nadine has yet again joined a group of BWF qualified coaches, sponsored by the BCA, to participate in this edition of the…
The badminton competition at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022 kicked off on the 29th of July at the NEC hall, with the Mauritian African Champion Julien Paul taking on the World Champion LOH Kean Yew from Singapore. Julien Paul, just recovering from a nasty Achilles tendon injury sustained at the African Championships, gave a good…
Badminton Federation of Djibouti I was born in Djibouti as the eldest of four children. My parents invested a lot to make us happy. My father was a mason and my mother was a cook in a hotel. We had a more or less easy childhood and we participated in daily household chores. At…
The winner of the inaugural African Shuttle Time Award (ASTA) at the concluded BCA AGM was the Badminton Federation of Togo (FETOBAD). Initiated by the BCA, ASTA aims at recognizing Member Associations that have excelled in successfully implementing the Shuttle Time Programme in their countries. Through their Shuttle Time Coordinator Mr. Lamidi Elliasou, FETOBAD emerged top among…
The BCA held its first physical Annual General Meeting in accordance with its constitution on the 25th of July 2022 in South Africa after two years of hosting virtual AGMs due to the Covid 19 Pandemic. With no proposals received from the Members the business of the AGM was to receive the various reports from…
Badminton Federation of Burundi I was born in 1966 in Matana in a countryside region in the south of Burundi. I’m the eldest in a family of eight children who lived off agriculture. My school was about 6 km from home. Like other children in my region, I loved playing football. After secondary school, I…
UGANDA’S NDEJJE UNIVERSITY CROWNED THE 2022 BADMINTON AFRICAN UNIVERSITY CHAMPIONS. The just concluded 10th All Africa University Games at the Kenyatta University saw Ndejje University take Gold in the Badminton Mixed Team event. Held in conjunction with the Badminton Confederation Africa further to their signing of a memorandum of understanding in 2018, the tournament…
