01/06/2014
Working to solve plight of Nigerian girls
Maybe it's true that the problems of Nigerian girls can be solved only by large armies, billions of dollars and drones. But that's a pretty easy, frictionless way to think, and what's encouraging about Ki-Ke Rafiu, Georgetown's Nigerian-born women's basketball player, is that she chooses the friction of trying to do something herself. As Rafiu sees things, it's amazing what a ball, a concrete floor and some rubber soles can do. She can find two of those three basic elements back home in Kaduna, Nigeria, but the soles are hard to come by, and that's where Rafiu sees her chance. Rafiu was 14 when she found her own chance on a concrete court behind a police station in Kaduna, a northwestern...
