Former Ghana coach Otto Addo believes Africa has demonstrated the need to have more slots at the World Cup.
Africa is represented by only five countries at the global showpiece and that has made it difficult for a team on the continent to win the tournament.
Ghana, Senegal and Cameroon are the only countries to have reached the quarter-finals of the Mundial. Africa's best performance at the World Cup.
The five countries that represented Africa at the 2022 World Cup were Ghana, Morocco, Senegal, Cameroon and Tunisia.
And of the five teams, Senegal and Morocco advanced to the Round 26 of the biggest soccer mundial in the Asian country.
At the moment, Morocco is the only African country left following Senegal’s heavy defeat to England in the Round 16 on Sunday.
Ghana and Cameroon had the chance to advance to the knockout phase but could not materialized in the final round of games in the group stage.
After defeating South Korea in their second group game, the Black Stars needed a draw or win against Uruguay to advance to the last 16 stage.
But the team failed to negotiate for points against their ‘enemies’ Uruguay.
Cameroon defeated Brazil in the final group game but failed to progress due to the results in the other group fixture.
In an interview, Otto Addo asserted Africa has demonstrated the need to get more slots at the mundial.
"I'm very, very happy for our African brothers to qualify," Addo told a news conference.
"It's surely an inspiration. I'm happy for Senegal first of all, it's very, very important.
"As you all know, Africa is, yeah, it's an exploited continent. In history a lot of things went wrong and went against us."
"This is what we try to do it for people, we do for Ghana, we do for Africa. And I hope that everybody understands that we have to give more than we have and everything we have, because sometimes for people at home it's their last hope," Addo said.