Nigeria’s Super Falcons are the title holders for the 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations championship. The team made a remarkable comeback in the second half of the final match against Morocco to win 3-2. Ester Okoronkwo, Folashade Ijamilusi, and Jennifer Echegini delivered key performances in the match. This year’s tournament showcased the growth of several African women football teams as Prof. Chuka Onwemechili writes.

A Sudanese community in Cairo organized a bazaar in Faysal to showcase businesses by displaced entrepreneurs, highlighting the resilience of Sudanese refugees despite the ongoing war. Entrepreneurs rely on trust-based networks to conduct trade, where relationships are key to securing goods, credit, and customer loyalty without formal financial systems.

• Founder and Lead Creative at Rayvolution Media,Gift Edah is a pioneering force in Africa's multimedia industry, known for delivering high-impact digital storytelling projects for major global brands like Netflix and Heineken. He shares with Business Insider Africa his entrepreneurship journey.
• Stary Mwaba, one of Zambia’s leading visual artists, showcases the lived experiences of the community in “the black mountain,” a wasteland for toxic industrial mining in Zambia.
• Zimbabwe’s celebrated athlete Kirsty Coventry is the first African and first woman president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). She is poised to lead the Olympics initiatives towards gender equality and athletic activism.

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Image: Flag of Nigeria. October 1, 1960. Photo Credit: Jon Harald Søby, public domain.