Africa’s basketball great builds a school
BOITUMELO RANTAO DIKEMBE Mutombo, one of Africa’s greatest basketball legends, and the National Basketball Association (NBA) global ambassadors is ploughing back to the community that raised him. Mutombo has unveiled his plans to build a new school in his ancestral village, Kasai-Oriental Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In honour of the NBA Hall of Famer’s late father, who served as an educator for 38 years before his retirement, the school will be named the Samuel Mutombo Institute of Science and Entrepreneurship. Mutombo, an active figure in development of several communities within the DRC and around the…