{"id":25399,"date":"2021-07-28T10:39:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T07:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=25399"},"modified":"2021-07-28T10:39:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T07:39:09","slug":"obama-joins-nba-africa-as-strategic-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/28\/obama-joins-nba-africa-as-strategic-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Joins NBA Africa As Strategic Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former US President Barack Obama has joined NBA Africa as a minority owner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He will help advance the NBA&#8217;s social responsibility programmes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NBA Africa has launched programmes aimed at improving the livelihoods of young Africans while raising awareness on gender-based violence and promoting girls&#8217; education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Obama will be a strategic partner and use this to fund his foundation&#8217;s youth and leadership programmes across the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NBA tweeted a video of President Obama explaining his partnership:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarackObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BarackObama<\/a> joins NBA Africa as a strategic partner. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qD5nxSZsbP\">https:\/\/t.co\/qD5nxSZsbP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zkfFXlxwej\">pic.twitter.com\/zkfFXlxwej<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NBA Africa (@NBA_Africa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA_Africa\/status\/1420128995971158017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 27, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US President Barack Obama has joined NBA Africa as a minority owner. He will help advance the NBA&#8217;s social responsibility programmes. NBA Africa has launched programmes aimed at improving the livelihoods of young Africans while raising awareness on gender-based violence and promoting girls&#8217; education. President Obama will be a strategic partner and use this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":25400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-25399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25401,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25399\/revisions\/25401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}