Kagame tips young basketball players on becoming giants

Kagame was speaking Monday in Kigali while opening the 2018 Giants of Africa Camp.

Giants of Africa is a Kenyan non-profit organization aimed at facilitating young talented basketball players gain experience and access to coaching and facilities.

At the camp in Kigali, the young players will be facilitated by Adam Silver, the Commissioner of the National Basketball Association, a men’s professional basketball league in North America. Also attending the camp is Masai Ujiri, the President of the Toronto Raptors, a Canadian Professional basketball team based in Toronto.

Kagame thanked both participants saying that it is pleasure to be in the camp for young people and for basketball.

“We are grateful that you have identified and spotted our country’s young talents and you are doing this work to develop them,” Kagame said.

Speaking to young basketball players, Kagame said “we look up to you for you to be what you want to be among other things including basketball players,”

He told participants of Giants of Africa camp to invest possible efforts if they want to become giants.

“You don’t become giants anyhow. Invest your energy, time, thinking and passion into it, you may end up being giants,” he urged.