The chapter explores the collaboration between FIBA and NBA Africa to create a pan-African basketball league, emphasizing its growth, impact on grassroots development, and efforts to retain talented players in Africa. It highlights the popularity of basketball in Africa, the influence of African players in the NBA, and the league's focus on nurturing local talent for professional play within the continent.
A tactical ploy to diminish the chances for Marine Le Pen’s hard-right National Rally has worked—a surprise result that puts the left in front, but no party in charge. Despite sporting passions in Africa, continental leagues have fizzled; a passion for basketball may soon change that (9:25). And remembering Ángeles Flórez Peón, the last militiawoman who defended Spain’s Second Republic (17:26).
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