BBC African Sports Personality of the Year

Initially a sports award, the inaugural winner was Ghana's Abedi Pele in 1992.

The only non-footballers to win the award was track and field athlete Frankie Fredericks in 1993, and long-distance track and road running athlete Haile Gebrselassie from Ethiopia, in 1998.

The Zambia national football team were posthumous winners of the award in 1994, following the plane crash in the Atlantic Ocean a year previous.

Nigeria's Nwankwo Kanu and Jay-Jay Okocha, as well as the Ivory Coast's Yaya Touré and Egypt's Mohamed Salah are the only players to win the award more than once, with two wins.

In 2019, the award was changed back to its initial concept and renamed as the BBC African Sports Personality of the Year to reflect the balance between gender, disability and variety of sports on offer.