The 1988 African Championships in Athletics were held in Annaba, Algeria, between 29 August and 2 September.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +1.1 m/s)	John Myles-Mills  Ghana	10.25	Charles-Louis Seck  Senegal	10.29	Iziak Adeyanju  Nigeria	10.34
200 metres (wind: -2.3 m/s)	Davidson Ezinwa  Nigeria	20.97	Emmanuel Tuffour  Ghana	21.00	Mustapha Kamel Selmi  Algeria	21.21
400 metres	Innocent Egbunike  Nigeria	45.43	Gabriel Tiacoh  Ivory Coast	45.86	Moses Ugbisie  Nigeria	46.04
800 metres	Babacar Niang  Senegal	1:46.99	Getahun Ayana  Ethiopia	1:47.46	Ahmed Belkessam  Algeria	1:47.49
1500 metres	Getahun Ayana  Ethiopia	3:42.77	Mahmoud Kalboussi  Tunisia	3:43.44	Mustapha Lachaal  Morocco	3:43.48
5000 metres	Brahim Boutayeb  Morocco	13:49.69	Haji Bulbula  Ethiopia	13:50.08	Mohamed Issangar  Morocco	14:02.25
10000 metres	Brahim Boutayeb  Morocco	28:55.28	Haji Bulbula  Ethiopia	29:04.65	Mohamed Choumassi  Morocco	29:30.59
Marathon	Dereje Nedi  Ethiopia	2:27:51	Allaoua Khélil  Algeria	2:28:11	Kebede Balcha  Ethiopia	2:29:04
3000 metre steeplechase	Azzedine Brahmi  Algeria	8:26.56	Abdelaziz Sahere  Morocco	8:27.30	Kamel Benlakhlef  Algeria	8:38.21
110 metres hurdles (wind: -1.0 m/s)	Noureddine Tadjine  Algeria	14.33	Marcelin Dally  Ivory Coast	14.35	Zouhair Khazine  Morocco	14.46
400 metres hurdles	Amadou Dia Bâ  Senegal	48.81	Henry Amike  Nigeria	49.36	Hamidou Mbaye  Senegal	50.27
4 × 100 metres relay	Nigeria Iziak Adeyanju Chidi Imoh Davidson Ezinwa Olapade Adeniken	39.27 CR	Ghana Myles Mills Nelson Boateng Eric Akogyiram Emmanuel Tuffour	39.44	Senegal Charles-Louis Seck Joseph Diaz Ibrahima Tamba Hamidou M'Baye	39.66
4 × 400 metres relay	Ethiopia Achalew Tesfaye Baro Worku Bach Ojulu Alemayehu Gudeta	3:07.11	Ivory Coast Akissi Simon Kpidi Lancine Fofana Anatole Zongo Kuyo Gabriel Tiacoh	3:08.45	Burundi Charles Nkazamyampi Soter Bimenyimana Cyprien Rugerinyange Pierre-Claver Nyabenda	3:09.11
20 kilometre road walk	Mohamed Bouhalla  Algeria	1:27:43 CR	Abdelwahab Ferguène  Algeria	1:34:07	Arezki Boumrar  Algeria	1:41:46
High jump	Boubacar Guèye  Senegal	2.16	Paul Ngadjadoum  Chad	2.16	Fred Salle  Cameroon	2.13
Pole vault	Choukri Abahnini  Tunisia	4.90 CR	Mejdi Drine  Tunisia	4.80	Samir Agsous  Algeria	4.80
Long jump	Yusuf Alli  Nigeria	7.78	Fred Salle  Cameroon	7.53	Lotfi Khaïda  Algeria	7.51
Triple jump	António Santos  Angola	16.43 (NR)	Lotfi Khaïda  Algeria	16.22w	Fethi Khelid Aboud  Libya	16.00
Shot put	Ahmed Mohamed Ashoush  Egypt	19.40	Ahmed Kamel Shata  Egypt	19.00	Adewale Olukoju  Nigeria	17.70
Discus throw	Adewale Olukoju  Nigeria	62.12	Hassan Ahmed Hamad  Egypt	55.94	Yacine Louail  Algeria	47.72
Hammer throw	Hakim Toumi  Algeria	69.06	Djamel Zouiche  Algeria	63.92	Sherif Farouk El Hennawi  Egypt	59.28
Javelin throw	Justin Arop  Uganda	74.52	Tarek Chaabani  Tunisia	67.50	Samir Ménouar  Algeria	64.62
Decathlon	Mahmoud Aït Ouhamou  Algeria	7160 CR	Mourad Mahour Bacha  Algeria	7128	Abdennacer Moumen  Morocco	7051

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +1.5 m/s)	Mary Onyali  Nigeria	11.25	Falilat Ogunkoya  Nigeria	11.51	Lalao Ravaonirina  Madagascar	11.54
200 metres (wind: +2.7 m/s)	Falilat Ogunkoya  Nigeria	23.33w	Martha Appiah  Ghana	23.72w	Veronica Bawuah  Ghana	24.35w
400 metres	Airat Bakare  Nigeria	52.15	Célestine N'Drin  Ivory Coast	52.77	Mercy Addy  Ghana	52.88
800 metres	Hassiba Boulmerka  Algeria	2:06.16	Maria de Lurdes Mutola  Mozambique	2:06.55	Sheila Seebaluck  Mauritius	2:08.26
1500 metres	Hassiba Boulmerka  Algeria	4:12.14	Fatima Aouam  Morocco	4:12.57	Getenesh Urge  Ethiopia	4:17.61
3000 metres	Fatima Aouam  Morocco	8:59.19	Josiane Boullé  Mauritius	9:14.37	Tigist Moreda  Ethiopia	9:15.92
10,000 metres	Marcianne Mukamurenzi  Rwanda	33:03.98	Hassania Darami  Morocco	33:41.75	Malika Benhabylès  Algeria	35:41.80
100 metres hurdles (wind: -1.1 m/s)	Maria Usifo  Nigeria	13.71	Dinah Yankey  Ghana	13.94	Yasmina Azzizi  Algeria	14.08
400 metres hurdles	Maria Usifo  Nigeria	56.74	Ruth Kyalisima  Uganda	57.32	Marie Womplou  Ivory Coast	57.60
4 × 100 metres relay	Ghana Veronica Bawuah Dinah Yankey Mercy Addy Martha Appiah	44.68	Ivory Coast Alimata Koné Louise Kore Marie Womplou Patricia Foufoué Ziga	45.59	Senegal Aida Diop Ndeye Aminata Niang Aïssatou Tandian Nene Sanghare	46.45
4 × 400 metres relay	Uganda Ajilo Ruth Kyalisima Grace Buzu Farida Kyakutema	3:37.74	Ivory Coast Marie Womplou Alimata Koné Louise Kore Célestine N'Drin	3:38.30	Morocco Fatima Aouam Nezha Bidouane Chadia Moubtakir Fatima Najjam	3:50.25
5000 metre track walk	Sabiha Mansouri  Algeria	25:51.70	Dalila Frihi  Algeria	27:06.20	Kheïra Sadat  Algeria	29:19.30
High jump	Lucienne N'Da  Ivory Coast	1.80	Constance Senghor  Senegal	1.68	Salimata Coulibaly  Ivory Coast	1.68
Long jump	Juliana Yendork  Ghana	5.70	Néné Sangharé  Senegal	5.68w	Fatou Tambédou  Senegal	5.56w
Shot put	Hanan Ahmed Khaled  Egypt	15.02	Souad Malloussi  Morocco	14.85	Jeanne Ngô Minyemeck  Cameroon	13.92
Discus throw	Grace Apiafi  Nigeria	50.60	Hanan Ahmed Khaled  Egypt	47.58	Zoubida Laayouni  Morocco	47.50
Javelin throw	Yasmina Azzizi  Algeria	48.82	Samia Djémaa  Algeria	45.74	Schola Mujawamaria  Uganda	44.86
Heptathlon	Yasmina Azzizi  Algeria	5740	Marie-Lourdes Ally Samba  Mauritius	4821	Huda Hashem Ismail  Egypt	4289

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Nigeria (NGR)	11	2	3	16
2	Algeria (ALG)	10	7	11	28
3	Morocco (MAR)	3	4	7	14
4	Ghana (GHA)	3	4	2	9
5	Senegal (SEN)	3	3	4	10
6	Ethiopia (ETH)	3	3	3	9
7	Egypt (EGY)	2	3	2	7
8	Uganda (UGA)	2	1	1	4
9	Ivory Coast (CIV)	1	6	2	9
10	Tunisia (TUN)	1	3	0	4
11	Angola (ANG)	1	0	0	1
	Rwanda (RWA)	1	0	0	1
13	Mauritius (MRI)	0	2	1	3
14	Cameroon (CMR)	0	1	2	3
15	Chad (CHA)	0	1	0	1
	Mozambique (MOZ)	0	1	0	1
17	Burundi (BDI)	0	0	1	1
	Libya (LBA)	0	0	1	1
	Madagascar (MAD)	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		41	41	41	123

• 1988 in athletics (track and field)

• Results – GBR Athletics