Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - antetokounmpo

On Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 10:20 Oluwatoyin Adepoju <ovdepoju@gmail.com> wrote:

Great!

On Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 22:48 Harrow, Kenneth <harrow@msu.edu> wrote:

this is not a "greek" name, but he is greek. "illegal" immigrant from nigeria to greece, now the greatest star of the national basketball assn, just won the championship. the story about him is really great: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/sports/giannis-antetokounmpo-greece.html

Giannis Antetokounmpo Is the Pride of a Greece That Shunned Him - The New York Times When Antetokounmpo was still an ordinary mortal, he was seen as just another migrant in Greece illegally. Now that he is a basketball star, "he has become the ambassador for Greece," Odubitan ... www.nytimes.com

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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