Early development of the women's game at the time colonial powers brought football to the continent was limited as colonial powers in the region tended to take make concepts of patriarchy and women's participation in sport with them to local cultures that had similar concepts already embedded in them.

[1] The lack of later development of the national team on a wider international level symptomatic of all African teams is a result of several factors, including limited access to education, poverty amongst women in the wider society, and fundamental inequality present in the society that occasionally allows for female specific human rights abuses.

[2] When quality female football players are developed, they tend to leave for greater opportunities abroad.

[3] Continent wide, funding is also an issue, with most development money coming from FIFA, not the national football association.

Attempting to commercialise the game and make it commercially viable is not the solution, as demonstrated by the current existence of many youth and women's football camps held throughout the continent.

[10] The team participated in the African Women U-20 World Cup 2008 Qualifying.

[11] They competed in the preliminary rounds of the 2010 CAF FIFA U20 World Cup.