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What started as just a childhood introduction to the game for Alpha Sankoh has grown into a passion for coaching, developing young players and building a stronger grassroots basketball culture in Namibia.<\/p>\n
Basketball player and coach Sankoh was born in Swakopmund and spent most of his childhood playing in the streets of Mondesa.<\/p>\n
He started school at Namib Primary School, where he remained until the middle of grade three, before moving to Windhoek Central Primary School to complete grade three and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> What started as just a childhood introduction to the game for Alpha Sankoh has grown into a passion for coaching, developing young players and building a stronger grassroots basketball culture in Namibia. Basketball player and coach Sankoh was born in Swakopmund and spent most of his childhood playing in the streets of Mondesa. He started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":241630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,8500,11916,6161,4706,724,257,14992,55228,254,6653],"class_list":["post-241629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-grow","tag-mission","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-personality","tag-sankohs","tag-south-africa-today","tag-week"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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