The National Basketball Association, NBA Africa yesterday announced that the fourth NBA Academy Women’s Camp Africa would take place from Monday, December 5 to end on Thursday, December 8 at NBA Academy Africa, an elite basketball training center in Saly, Senegal, for the top high-school age prospects from across the continent. This year’s women’s camp […]
the surface, at least online that may burst out. lynda? steven jiang, we ll leave it there for now in beijing. good to have you with us. well, a former nba star is trying to boost africa s economy through his coffee company and investment in a basketball league called nba africa. we spoke with dikembe mutombo about his business endeavors at the expo 2020. as you know, coffee is the number two commodity with more than $385 billion a year. but there is not many african representative on the table. and to get on this business knowing that the majority of the coffee comes from the beautiful continent of africa. and talk to us a bit more about how this coffee company, your coffee company is putting women to work specifically on the continent.
represent and nobody talk about them. i felt it was really important as a company to address that issue, to try to figure out how can we help those women because most of those women are a mother, sister, cousin, auntie, and grandma. and more that we talk about the more we get a chance to address the issue so many women are facing in the workforces. i want to talk to you about nba africa. i m sure this is obviously dear to your heart. yes. tell us about your investment in nba africa and what you hope the league will achieve on the continent. nba africa investment was a great thing. some of us african players we played in the nba. including all the investor from the continent and the nba in particular. to invest more than a billion dollars in the continent to start a new league to give those young men and young girls hope because we don t think that
causes being turned away. in at least one case a local nurse died because of this. and then of course the city has to the country s oldest population among all major cities. that s another concern because that s a segment of the population undervaccinated. all of this of course is happening in shanghai but it s being decided here in beijing but seems at least for now the leadership here is not ready to change course when it comes to its zero covid policy because it s been working for them politically and not to mention the top priority is that communist party congress we ve been talking for so much this year. they simply don t want to tolerate the scenario of co..id cases across china as xi jinping is expected to take his third term in office. rosemary? steven jiang brings us up to date with that live report from beijing. many thanks. well, a former nba star is trying to boost africa s economy through his coffee company and investment in a basketball league called nba africa.
including all the investor from the continent and the nba in particular to invest more than a billion dollar in the continent to start a new league to give those young men and young girls a hope. because we don t think that every young man growing up in africa would speaking of the game would ever change to go and excel in america or in europe. maybe 1%, maybe 001 will make to it the u.s. maybe to college, but not all of them would make to the nba. so that s why the nba commissioner decided the moment have come to start a new league in the continent and give those young men a prospect for them to stay home, to stay in home country and home continent, to be the star of their own people and to take care of their family and their loved one. and i m so happy with the direction that we re going.