Celtel Africa Challenge
| Africa Challenge | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Celtel Africa Challenge |
| Presented by | John Sibi-Okumu |
| Country of origin | East Africa |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Richard Reid |
| Release | |
| Original release | 2005 – 2010 |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
Africa Challenge is a televised academic competition for students of African universities. It has previously been sponsored by Zain Telecommunication company and was known as Zain Africa Challenge. Prior to the acquisition of MTC, Celtel's parent company, the competition was known as the Celtel Africa Challenge. The programme was an extension of Celtel’s corporate social responsibility initiative known as “Making Life Better”, further adopted and retained by Zain. It is produced by Richard Reid Productions, which also produces Honda Campus All-Star Challenge in the United States.
The Season five, which was set to be telecast in 2011, failed to make it past pre-production after the Zain sold its African network operations to Bharti Airtel.
Zain Africa Challenge was hosted by John Sibi-Okumu.
Africa Challenge is a question and answer game played between two teams of three players each. The game is played in four rounds. The first three rounds are called Face-Off Rounds. The fourth round is called the Ultimate Challenge.
In each of these rounds, there are two types of questions: Face-Offs, worth 10 points each and Bonuses, worth 20 points. In each of the three Face-Off rounds, a different player represents the team answering Face-Off questions. That player is the only one who can answer for his or her team.
On Face-Offs, after the entire question is read, the first player to signal gets to answer. If s/he answers correctly, the team gets a Bonus question. If s/he answers wrong, the player representing the other team gets a chance to answer the Face-Off. If that player answers correctly, his or her team gets the Bonus. Bonuses are played by the entire team.
In each Face-Off round, there are four new categories. In each category there are four Face-Off questions. Each Face-Off has a related Bonus question. The last player to correctly answer a Face-Off selects the category for the next Face-Off.
At the end of the three Face-Off rounds the teams play the Ultimate Challenge. The team that’s behind goes first. If there’s a tie, there is a coin toss and the team that wins decides if it wants to go first or last. Each team gets a turn to play the Ultimate Challenge. There are four new categories from which to choose. When it’s a team’s turn to play, the players confer and select the category. Once a category is selected it is no longer available.
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