2017-18 Ligue 1 - Cameroon's Toko Ekambi wins Foe prize

Cameroon and Angers forward Karl Toko Ekambi has won the Marc-Vivien Foe Award for the best African player in France's Ligue 1.

The 25-year-old won the prize ahead of Tunisia's Whabi Khazri (Rennes) and Burkina Faso's Bertrand Traore (Lyon)

Toko Ekambi becomes the Cameroonian winner of the award named in honour of his compatriot Foe, who who died after collapsing on the pitch in 2003.

  Cameroon and Angers forward Karl Toko Ekambi succeeds Ivory Coast's Jean Michael Seri who won the prize last year.

The France-born forward scored 17 goals for Angers this season to be the eighth highest scorer in Ligue 1.