AfroBasket Cup

Since 1962 in Cairo, the African Basketball Championship, now renamed AfroBasket, crowned several teams before Angola took control of the competition in 1989, winning 11 out of the last 14 titles. The Angolans Joaquim Gomes and Miguel Lutonda participated in this undisputed domination showing off their talents throughout the years 2000. Their double MVP titles in 2001/2003 and 2007/2009 respectively attest to this.

It was Tunisia, with its center Salah Mejri, who was sensational in 2011 and thus ended the Angolan hegemony. Angola had won six consecutive titles without conceding a single game between 1999 and 2009.

The 28th edition in 2015 also provided a nice surprise, with Nigeria clinching its first title by beating Angola (obviously). While the Senegalese player of the Minnesota Timberwolves Gorgui Dieng played a sensational tournament by scoring 22.9 points and grabbing 14.9 rebounds per game, it was indeed the Nigerian player Chamberlain Oguchi who was named MVP of the competition after helping his country to such an unexpected coronation. In this regard, the Nigerian and Tunisian jerseys of the last AfroBasket jerseys are exposed in the display in front of you.

The Africa Women's Basketball Championships was born in 1966, four years after the men's edition. After the unique success of Madagascar in 1970, Senegal, like Angola for the men, marked its domination by winning 9 of the 12 subsequent editions from 1974 to 2003. This supremacy is challenged by Zaire (DRC) three times in 1983, 1986 and 1994. In 2007, Mali realized a phenomenal feat by beating, to everyone's surprise, Senegal and Angola.

During the last edition in 2015 in Cameroon, Senegal took the reins again to raise the trophy for the 11th time thanks in large part to one of the best African players of all time, the forward Aya Traore. She became at the same time the best scorer of the AfroBasket.