A Kenyan journalist Steffany Wangari Ndei is among 17 women who have won the global Emerging Women Writers Competition.
This is after the 29-year-old wrote a personal story of her relationship with football, from a child who fell in love with the game watching the 2002 World Cup, to a promising player on a college scholarship in the US, to becoming disaffected with the game until she returned to Kenya to coach a boys' team.