2021 Men's African Nations Volleyball Championship

The 2021 Men's African Nations Volleyball Championship was the 23rd edition of the Men's African Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the African Volleyball Confederation (CAVB) with Rwanda Volleyball Federation (FRVB). The tournament was held in Kigali, Rwanda from 7 to 14 September 2021. The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship as the CAVB representatives.

Qualification
16 teams have registered to participate in the 2021 African Championship.
 * originally qualified, but declined to enter.

Pools composition
Ranking from the previous edition was shown in brackets except the host and the teams who did not participate, which were denoted by (–). The host country and the top 8 ranked teams were seed in the Serpentine system. The 10 remaining teams were drawn in Kigali, Rwanda on 6 September 2021.

Pool standing procedure

 * 1) Number of matches won
 * 2) Match points
 * 3) Sets ratio
 * 4) Points ratio
 * 5) Result of the last match between the tied teams

Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser

Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser.

Group stage

 * All times are Central Africa Time (UTC+02:00).

Pool A

 * The confederation has decided to postpone the match between and, originally scheduled for 10 September at 10:00, in consideration of the health and safety of players and coaches. The match was rescheduled for 10 September at 16:00 after COVID-19 tests for Burundi team were negative.

Pool D

 * The confederation has decided to remove from the ongoing tournament for having failed to comply with their financial obligations. Their games were forfeited and will receive zero classification point.

Final round

 * All times are Central Africa Time (UTC+02:00).

Final standing


Awards

 * Most valuable player
 * 🇲🇦 Mohamed Al Hachdadi
 * Best attacker
 * 🇹🇳 Wassim Ben Tara
 * Best blocker
 * 🇨🇲 Christian Voukeng Mbativou
 * Best server
 * 🇨🇲 Yvan Arthur Kody
 * Best setter
 * 🇹🇳 Khaled Ben Slimene
 * Best receiver
 * 🇲🇦 Zouheir El Graoui
 * Best libero
 * 🇪🇬 Mohamed Reda