Past Winners
PANASA is an international sporting association, a non-governmental, having its own juridical status.
PANASA, founded in 1994, consists of all African National Scrabble Associations which are also participating countries of the World Scrabble Championships (WSC) and recognized by WSB as the official bodies controlling Scrabble in their respective countries.
Those in attendance during the formative meeting were:
The main objective of the association then was to develop Scrabble play in Africa and organize a biennial Scrabble Championship amongst member countries. The 14th edition of the ASC held in Lusaka, Zambia from the 21st – 24th October 2022.
The idea of a Pan-African Scrabble Championship was the brainchild of the Kenya Amateur Scrabble Association (now Scrabble Kenya), with full support from the Scrabble Association of Nigeria now (Nigeria Scrabble Federation) and other Scrabble bodies in Africa. There were only three countries in attendance at the first PANASA.
Scrabble is played in millions of homes across the African continent. These are some of the key metrics of the sport in Africa: