Africa – Top 5

The World Quizzing Championships 2017 saw 58 players from the African nations of Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar and Nigeria heading out to take part in the quiz.

Phil Dixon from Monrovia, Liberia, scored 79 points in this year's World Quizzing Championships ("WQC"). He is the most incredibly inspirational man. When the ebola crisis struck his country, he was out working in the field to help. He's currently a C4D Officer for Child Protection at Unicef in Liberia, and has previously worked as a consultant at the Child Rights Alliance, a consultant at Forum of African Women Educationalists (Liberia) and as President at the National Students Intellectual Council of Liberia. He works tirelessly to promote education and well-being in Liberia and we are honoured to have worked with him at the IQA for over a decade now.

Phil first participated in the WQC in 2006 and has played every year since. In 2010 he collaborated with other IQA reps to produce a very well received international, quadri-continental team quiz and is currently working towards inter-African quizzing with the Nigerian Quiz Association. He also flies the flag for Africa in regular global competition - having played in the 2020Quiz league since its inception in early 2014.