Handball at the 1978 All-Africa Games – Women's tournament
# Handball at the 1978 All-Africa Games – Women's tournament

The 1978 edition of the Women's Handball Tournament of the African Games was the 1st, organized by the African Handball Confederation and played under the auspices of the International Handball Federation, the handball sport governing body. The tournament was held in Algiers, Algeria, contested by 6 national teams and won by Algeria.

## Draw

| Group A | Group B |
| - | - |
| Algeria  Ivory Coast  Nigeria | Cameroon  Egypt  Tunisia |

## Preliminary round

### Group A

| Algeria | 14 : 08 | Nigeria |
| - | - | - |
| Algeria | 17 : 13 | Ivory Coast |
| Ivory Coast | 15 : 13 | Nigeria |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| Algeria | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 21 | +10 | 4 | Advance to semi-finals |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 28 | 30 | −2 | 2 | Advance to semi-finals |
| Nigeria | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 29 | −8 | 0 | Relegated to 5th place classification |

### Group B

| Tunisia | 12 : 04 | Egypt |
| - | - | - |
| Cameroon | 13 : 10 | Egypt |
| Tunisia | 13 : 13 | Cameroon |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| Tunisia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 17 | +8 | 3 | Advance to semi-finals |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 23 | +3 | 3 | Advance to semi-finals |
| Egypt | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 25 | −11 | 0 | Relegated to 5th place classification |

## Knockout stage

### Fifth place

| Nigeria | 21 : 14 | Egypt |
| - | - | - |

### Championship bracket

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - |
| Algeria | 9 |
| Tunisia | 8 | | |
| Tunisia | 8 | Algeria | 17 |
| | | Cameroon | 12 |
| Cameroon | 14 | Cameroon | 12 |
| Ivory Coast | 12 | | |
| Ivory Coast | 12 | Third place | Third place |
| | | Tunisia | 19 |
| | | Ivory Coast | 6 |

## Final ranking

| Rank | Team | Record |
| - | - | - |
| | Algeria | 4–0 |
| | Cameroon | 2–1 |
| | Tunisia | 2–1 |
| 4 | Ivory Coast | 1–3 |
| 5 | Nigeria | 1–2 |
| 6 | Egypt | 0–3 |

## Awards

* 1978 All-Africa Games Women's Handball winner
* Algeria 1st title
