{"id":47699,"date":"2023-03-15T14:54:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T14:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nshobozwabyosenumukiza-to-be-presented-with-ubuntu-trophy\/"},"modified":"2023-03-15T14:57:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T14:57:21","slug":"nshobozwabyosenumukiza-to-be-presented-with-ubuntu-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nshobozwabyosenumukiza-to-be-presented-with-ubuntu-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Nshobozwabyosenumukiza to be presented with Ubuntu Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ubuntu Trophy, which recognizes the BAL player who has made an outstanding effort and impact in the community during the BAL season, was awarded to Jean-Jacques in recognition of his efforts with Club Rafiki (CR) in Rwanda throughout the 2022 BAL season.   <\/p>\n<p>Through his collaboration with CR, sources reveal, Nshobozwabyosenumukiza used the game of basketball to help children and young adults (U18) integrate into society and discover their potential through developmental basketball programming and competitions. <\/p>\n<p>In recognition of his efforts, the BAL will donate US$5000 to Club Rafiki. <\/p>\n<p>Nshobozwabyosenumukiza who was nominated as the Ubuntu Trophy finalist alongside Forces Arme\u00e9s et Police Basketball\u2019s (FAP) Essome Pierre and Petro de Luanda\u2019s Lukeny Gerson, was selected as the winner by a BAL executive panel and fans on social media.  <\/p>\n<p>He is the second BAL player to receive the award, joining 2021 BAL Season Ubuntu Trophy winner Hichem Benayad-Cherif, who played for Groupement Sportif des P\u00e9troliers in the inaugural BAL season.<\/p>\n<p>The BAL Ubuntu Trophy, which will be given out annually, recognizes a player who participated in the BAL and who best represents the league through his efforts in the community.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cUbuntu\u201d derives from Nguni and Bantu languages and symbolizes essential human virtues, such as compassion, respect, and humanity.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-46781 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/nco.jpg\" alt=\"Nshobozwabyosenumukiza was nominated as the Ubuntu Trophy finalist. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda Energy Group\u2019s (REG) Jean-Jacques Nshobozwabyosenumukiza will be presented the 2022 Ubuntu Trophy during an on-court ceremony at Dakar Arena before REG\u2019s game against AS Douanes on Wednesday, March 15 at 7 p.m.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-47699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47699"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47699"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}