Nigeria beat Senegal in the 2023 women’s Afrobasket championship final on Saturday.
D’Tigress won 84-74 at the BK Arena, Kigali, Rwanda, on Saturday.
The victory makes Nigeria only the second African country ever to win the women’s Afrobasket title four times in a row.
Wakama also became the first female coach to win the competition since its inception in 1966.
On Thursday, the Nigerians whitewashed Rwanda, the hosts, 79-48 in the semi-final to book a place in the finale.
The coach maintained the starting five of the previous game; Amy Okonkwo, Palla Kunaiyi-Akpanah, Elizabeth Balogun, Sarah Ogoke and Blessing Ejiofor.
The game against Senegalese was a rematch of the final of the 2019 Women’s Afrobasket and the semi-final of the 2021 edition — Nigeria won on both occasions.
D’Tigress never looked like faltering from the history lane and quickly established a 19-10 lead in the first quarter.
The Nigerians increased the lead with more intensity in the second quarter and were ahead by 43-31 by halftime.
The Senegalese returned from the break rejuvenated, and they clawed back the lead to 62-57 at the end of the third quarter.
The final quarter was fiercely contested, but D’Tigress dug in to secure a 10-point victory to etch their name in African basketball history.
Only Senegal, who won the biennial competition uninterruptedly from 1974 to 1981, have achieved a four-peat in the history of Women’s Afrobasket.
D’Tigress won the last three editions of the Women’s Afrobasket and remain unbeaten in every African competition.