Africa has always produced some of the finest footballers of different generations, from Roger Mila to Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto’o to Michael Essien and Yaya Toure. These players have graced the European football with africa flair and power and most of the big clubs send their scouts in the African cup of Nations to find some gems who might light up european leagues and Champions League.

Top 10 Highest Earning African Footballers:

#	FOOTBALLER	CLUB	YEARLY	WEEKLY
1	Yaya Toure	Man City	€13.5M	€250,000
2	Didier Drogba	Galatasaray	€10.9M	€150,000
3	Emmanuel Adebayor	Tottenham	€8M	€120,000
4	Samuel Eto’o	Chelsea	€5.5M	€75,000
5	Mikel John Obi	Chlesea	€4.5M	€65,000
6	Michael Essien	Chelsea	€4M	€60,000
7	Christopher Samba	QPR	€5M	€65,000
8	Kolo Toure	Liverpool	€3.2M	€50,000
9	Seydou Keita	Dalian Aerbin	€3M	€40,000
10	Frederic Kanoute	Beijing Guoan	€2M	€35,000

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Top 10 Richest African Footballers

#1. Samuel Eto’o
Net Worth – $55 Million

#2. Didier Drogba
Net Worth – $35 Million

#3. Michael Essien
Net Worth – $22.7 million

#4. Emmanuel Adebayor
Net Worth – $15 Million

#5. Yaya Toure
Net Worth – $11.4 Million

#6. Kolo Toure
Net Worth – $10.3 million

#7. John Mikel Obi
Net Worth – $8 Million

#8. Frederic Kanoute
Net Worth – $8 Million

With the changing face of football around the world, more marketing more money which ultimately reward the players who are consistant and are playing on top of their games. Here is the list of players from African continent who have been on top of their game and earning the most money. Here is the list of top 10 highest earners from African continent in sport of football.

Samuel Eto’o Made that controversial move from Barcelona to Anzhi which was purely motivated because of the amount of money he was being payed, he is also the 2 highest earning player in the list of footballers in the world. While Didier Drogba who joined Galatasaray from Chinese club is one of the the other massively payed footballer from Africa. There are some surprising names as well with the likes of Seydo Keita who is playing in middle east after he joined a club from Barcelona and he is getting around 12 Millions euros

Yaya Toure who recently signed a contract extension with Manchester City is another player who is earning around 15 million euros. Drogba recently secured 5% share in Ivory Coast gold mine, and Michaels Essien orgnized a friendly match in Ghana couple of weeks ago.