Dreaming of Glory in Ghana

Sportshour comes from Ghana, where the Women's Africa Cup of Nations begins on Saturday, to celebrate women's sport on the world's second largest continent.Sarah Mulkerrins is joined by Freda Prempeh (Chairperson of the Local Organizing Committee of the Women's Africa Cup of Nations), former Ghana player Adjoa Bayor, Vice President of the Normalisation Committee to run Ghana football, Lucy Quist and Ghanaian sports journalist, Veronica Commey. We also speak to players at the Right to Dream African football academy - which provides Africa’s first and only girls’ residential football and education programme.And in this week's Sporting Witness, we hear how Kenyan Tegla Loroupe became a hero to women across Africa, when she became the first black African woman to win a major international marathon – with a surprise win in New York.Photo: L-R Adjoa Bayor, Veronica Commey, Sarah Mulkerrins, Lucy Quist & Freda Pempah (BBC World Service)