Nigeria’s D’Tigress win fifth Afrobasket title
Omobola Sadiq
Nigeria’s D’Tigress have won their fifth consecutive Women’s AfroBasket title with a brilliant 78-64 victory over Mali.
The game was played Sunday night in Abidjan.
The Malians started off with their supporters and won the first quarter 26-21. D’Tigress recovered to win the second quarter at 20-15 and both teams went on break tied at 41-41. The back-to-back African champions maintained the tempo winning the next stage 20-15 and then the last quarter at 17-8 to make it the fifth straight title.
D’Tigress has now become the first on the continent to win the championship five times in a row.
The victory also extended Nigeria’s astonishing unbeaten run in the competition to 29 straight games—an unbroken streak dating back to 2015 in Yaoundé, Cameroon when they defeated Angola in the third-place match.
Nigeria turned things around from the 2017 Women’s AfroBasket semifinals in Bamako, Mali. Nigeria walked away with a 48–47 victory, marking the beginning of their eight-year African dominance.
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Two years later, in 2019, Nigeria beat Mali 79-58 in Dakar, Senegal. They beat them again in the 2021 tournament final in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Since 2011, Mali and Nigeria have each won three times but the victory that cannot be easily forgotten is this August 3, 2025 success that has given D’Tigress the record setting five-staright tittles.
