How the Thunder reached a small village in Rwanda
By ANTHONY SLATER NewsOK.com on Sep 5, 2013, at 9:25 AM
Luke, a boarding school student in Rwanda, wears his new Russell Westbrook shirt. He is an avid fan of the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA basketball superstar. Photo provided to NewsOK.com
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As part of his chosen downtime, Durant made his way into a hookah lounge.
KAKC, found on am1300 and also known as The Buzz, will be the Tulsa radio home of the Oklahoma City Thunder under a multi-year partnership agreement.
OKLAHOMA CITY - Tucked deep inside Rwanda's mountainous terrain, the small Central African village of Rwankuba doesn't have Internet, doesn't have running water and doesn't have much connection to the outside world.
It's a war-stricken country, still recovering from the devastating mass genocide that killed more than 500,000 people (about 20 percent of the population) in 1994.
So it came as no surprise to Betsy Dewey, a Peace Corps volunteer from Oklahoma City, that the Rwandan natives had never heard of her home state.
“New York or California?” they'd ask back in January, her first month in the village, when she introduced herself as an American.
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Pro Basketball (NBA)
As part of his chosen downtime, Durant made his way into a hookah lounge.
KAKC, found on am1300 and also known as The Buzz, will be the Tulsa radio home of the Oklahoma City Thunder under a multi-year partnership agreement.
