Indeed, Africa has produced Great men and women in sports. We've had top players in Tennis, football, basketball, chess, e.t.c. People like

ALTHEA GIBSON (1927-2003),
Althea Gibson an international tennis champion became the first African-American woman to win a major singles tennis championship.
Despite constant discrimination, Gibson continued to win tournaments and make a name for herself both nationally and abroad. In honor of her world class talents, Gibson became the first African-American, of either sex, invited to play at the U.S. Nationals in Forest Hills, NY.
Gibson then became the first African-American invited to enter the all-England tournament at Wimbledon, playing there in 1951. She entered other tournaments, though at first winning only minor titles outside the ATA. In 1956, she won the French Open. In the same year, she toured worldwide as a member of a national tennis team supported by the U.S. State Department.
In 1957, she was the first African-American to be voted by the Associated Press as its Female Athlete of the Year. She won the honor again in 1958.
The next year, she made more history by winning Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals, the first African-American to win either. She must have liked winning the world's two most prestigious tournaments, too, because she repeated the accomplishments in 1958.

JIMMY WINKFIELD (1882-1974), MAURICE ASHLEY (1966-), Mohammed Ali, Micheal Jordan, Jay-Jay Okocha, Maria Mutola, Tiger Woods et.c. All these people have made Africa ( the black race) proud but it worries me that most of them did not flourish (especially those from poverty stricken Africa) until they got to europe. Sports in Africa in dwindling...players are not paid on time, no football pitches to play on, and so young talented Africans are sold to the "Whites" very cheap. Young talents are leaving African en-mass and this is a dangerous trend.