African Sports Monthly Vol I. Issue I. January 2018 | Page 19

the very question posed, about which African Nation is the most athletic and has the fastest athletes is the same one that arises when one starts to ponder about why are Jamaicans and African Americans so fast and athletic. One starts to wonder which country or region in Africa are most African Americans and people from the Caribbean descended from.

The question therefore, as to which nation in Africa has the fastest people becomes a very intriguing one.

This is a question that various countries in Africa themselves would like to find out about, so as to give them ultimate bragging rights and a real reason to

Africa’s Fastest Nation

Which Country in Africa do you think, can boast of having a collective of the fastest humans in its population gene pool?

This is a question that is most times posed by sports fans and on occasion by sports analysts for the obvious reasons of having bragging rights or just to simply know.

In the Western hemisphere we know that the USA and the little Island of Jamaica are the two most dominant nations in the category of fastest humans. But to be flat out pointed on which one of these two nations is the better, that vote will go to Jamaica.

Jamaica is a very small island nation with a lesser number of people than the USA. They also have less advanced training facilities to add to their disadvantages. But are these the measures that determines which nation is fastest. No not at all but they are certainly contributing factors to the final answer as to which one is.

Talking about the USA and Jamaica …

Marie Jose Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast

Blessing Okagbare of Nigeria

Gerald Phiri of Zambia & Ben Youssef Meite of the Ivory Coast