Manchester City striker Emmanuel Adebayor feels shame for the reputation of Africa after the gun attack on Togo's team bus.
Three died and several others were injured after Togo's bus was attacked by separatist gunmen from the Front of Liberation of the Enclave of Cambinda.
Adebayor said: "These are the things we keep saying - in Africa, we have to change our image if we want to be respected but unfortunately that's not happening.
"We have a chance with one of the biggest tournaments in the world, the World Cup in the summer. I feel ashamed and it's unfair.
"The thing we don't understand is why they shot at our bus, that's the question now. There's no one who has got a reason for that. It's not only one guy, or two guys shooting one time or two times on our bus.
"Can you imagine, we were in the middle of that for 30 minutes.
"Our bus had been stopped and people had been shooting at it for 30 minutes.
"If you can imagine, the silence on the bus was unbelievable."