Africa needs more funding to continue to fight all of those diseases. We are losing more than 1.3 million young children under the age of five every year because of malaria. We've already lost 25 million people to the pandemic of HIV-AIDS. More people are dying now from typhoid fever. Diabetes is on the rise.

People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that's were I developed.

My decision leaving the Nuggets was based on the organization not saying they had the cap room to sign me.

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