| Basketball at the African Games | |
| Image Upright: | 0.6 |
| Formation: | 1965 Brazzaville |
| Recurrence: | four years |
| Last: | 2015 Brazzaville |
| Leader Title: | Most successful team(s) |
Basketball has been a discipline of the African Games event since the first edition in 1965 in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo.
Starting at the 2019 event, "regular" 5-on-5 basketball was replaced by 3x3 basketball.
| Men's Basketball | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=10% | Year | width=15% | Host | width=26% | Gold | width=26% | Silver | width=26% | Bronze |
| 1965 Details | Brazzaville | ||||||||
| 1973 Details | Lagos | ||||||||
| 1978 Details | Algiers | ||||||||
| 1987 Details |  Nairobi | ||||||||
| 1991 Details |  Cairo | ||||||||
| 1995 Details | Harare | ||||||||
| 1999 Details | Johannesburg | ||||||||
| 2003 Details | Abuja | ||||||||
| 2007 Details | Algiers | ||||||||
| 2011 Details |  Maputo | ||||||||
| 2015 Details | Brazzaville |
| Nation | 65 | 73 | 78 | 87 | 91 | 95 | 99 | 03 | 07 | 11 | 15 | Years | ||||||
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| 4th | 4th | ? | 5th | 4th | 5 | |||||||||||||
| bgcolor=gold | 1st | ? | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 3rd | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 7 | ||||||
| ? | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 4th | 8th | ? | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 6th | ? | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3rd | 6th | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 9th | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| ? | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 6th | 8th | 7th | 7 | ||||||||||
| bgcolor=gold | 1st | 3rd | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 5th | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 8 | ||||
| 8th | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4th | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 11th | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| ? | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3rd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 4th | 9th | 4th | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ? | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 5th | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| ? | ? | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 3rd | 8 | |||||||||
| 7th | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 4th | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 3rd | 5th | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 7 | |||||||
| 9th | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| ? | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6th | 7th | 10th | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| bgcolor=gold | 1st | 3rd | 10th | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| ? | ? | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| Women's Basketball | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=10% | Year | width=13% | Host | width=26% | Gold | width=26% | Silver | width=26% | Bronze |
| 1965 Details | Brazzaville | ||||||||
| 1973 Details | Lagos | ||||||||
| 1978 Details | Algiers | ||||||||
| 1987 Details | Nairobi | ||||||||
| 1991 Details | Cairo | ||||||||
| 1995 Details | Harare | ||||||||
| 1999 Details | Johannesburg | ||||||||
| 2003 Details | Abuja | ||||||||
| 2007 Details | Algiers | ||||||||
| 2011 Details | Maputo | ||||||||
| 2015 Details | Brazzaville |
| Nation | 65 | 73 | 78 | 87 | 91 | 95 | 99 | 03 | 07 | 11 | 15 | Years | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ? | 6th | 8th | 9th | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 4th | 3rd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 3rd | 5 | |||||||||||||
| bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 9th | 5th | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 10th | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| bgcolor=gold | 1st | 3rd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 8th | 10th | 6 | |||||||||||
| 6th | 9th | 5th | 7th | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3rd | 3rd | ? | 3rd | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| 8th | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7th | 5th | 5th | 6th | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | ? | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| 10th | 12th | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 4th | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 5th | 4th | 4th | 6th | 7 | |||||||||||
| 3rd | 6th | 4th | 3rd | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 3rd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 8 | |||||||||
| 7th | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 3rd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 3rd | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 4th | 11 | |
| 5th | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 6th | ? | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4th | 7th | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ? | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| ? | 11th | 11th | 3 | |||||||||||||||||