Rookies Destanni Henderson, Queen Eggbo, a likely recruit for the Nigerian D’Tigress National Team for the World Championship in Australia, lead Indiana Fever’s team of Rookies to preseason win over Chicago Sky
Rookies Destanni Henderson, Queen Eggbo, a likely recruit for the Nigerian D’Tigress National Team for the World Championship in Australia, lead Indiana Fever’s team of Rookies to preseason win over Chicago Sky
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INDIANAPOLIS — The game was on the line, and Indiana Fever rookie Destanni Henderson was up for the challenge against the defending WNBA champion Chicago Sky. Chicago’s Anneli Maley had just nailed a 3-pointer to put her team ahead by two with a little over two minutes remaining Saturday at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, but on the ensuing possession Henderson knifed to the basket and muscled in a lefty layup while being fouled by Maley.
Henderson, a 5–7 guard, is the shortest player on Indiana’s roster, yet when her team needed it most, she came up big in her WNBA preseason debut.
“(My) coaches were telling me to attack downhill, so just using my speed to be deliberate and just to finish strong at the rim,” Henderson said, describing the play. “Teams gonna be aggressive, so just make sure I focus at the rim and (the shot) happened to went in and my emotions let out.”
Former Baylor standout and №10 pick Queen Egbo, playing in arean which once featured (former D’Tigress The name of the Nigerian National Female Basketball Team Star Marvis Simpson — whom I introduced to the Harlem Globetrotter Recruiter in 1990) had a strong outing as well. After Henderson’s and-one layup put Indiana ahead 75–74, Egbo converted a layup a few plays later to extend the Fever’s lead to three, and provided stout defense down the stretch. The 6–3 center helped Indiana outscore Chicago 20–9 in the fourth quarter while totaling game highs of 15 points and 10 rebounds, reports James Boyd
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Harlem Globetrotters’ Curly Neal was truly a global icon who helped This Globe-Trotting Sports Writer In the quest to decolonize the White Mind And Persistent Dark Stereotypes Of The Motherland!
“Watching the likes of Stephen Curry, Kyrie Irving, Allen Iverson, Kenny Anderson, God Shammgod, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Isiah Thomas, Tim Hardaway and Chris Paul masterfully dribble a basketball in recent years has been a thing of beauty. But before any of them patted the leather globe, there was the artistry of Harlem Globetrotters star Curly Neal.
I became enamored with Neal and the Globetrotters when I was a young child watching them on television…it was the baldheaded Neal who caught my eye more than anyone. Nicknamed after one of the famed Three Stooges, Neal constantly left his defenders bewildered by his fancy dribbling before making an open layup.”
Fred “Curly” Neal died at the age of 77 in 2020. Former Globetrotters owner Mannie Jackson told The Undefeated that Neal had been battling complications from a stroke in recent years while living in Houston. The Greensboro, North Carolina, native had played in more than 6,000 games in 97 countries for the Globetrotters from 1963 to 1985.
“Curly was an icon and a legend with the Globetrotters,” Globetrotters senior vice president of communications Brett Meister said to The Undefeated. “He was a personal friend. It’s been a tough day.”
Tough day is indeed an understatement. Just when I thought there would be some respite from bad news across the world I read about the death of Fred Curly Neal, one of the reasons I met with Harlem Globetrotters executives between 1990 and 1991, when I was accredited to report on the Lakers.
In 1991 I had an opportunity to attend a Houston Rockets and LA Lakers game in Los Angeles where I met one of the Harlem Globetrotters front office staff who was interested in recruiting talented players from Nigeria for the exhibition team, based on the exploits of Hakeem Olajuwon who was a fan of Fred Curly Neal.
The quest for that talented player for the Globetrotter team never came to fruition because I relocated to northern California late in 1990. However my communications with the Globetrotter front office was an experience I will never forget. And no I was not a boyfriend to the talented 17 year old Female basketballer for First Bank of Nigeria and member of the Nigerian National Female basketball team known as D’Tigress. We also talked about another talented member of D’Tigress Mavis Simpson.
However, the opportunity also provided the chance to meet Magic Johnson, through the assistance of John Black, the Lakers’ vice president of public relations. But I did not interview white John Black. I interviewed black Magic Johnson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoEl2Oo66IY
So like Cameroon’s Indomitable Eagles versus England at the World Cup in 1990, the analysts continued to stereotype black people with the nick names of national teams such as D’Tigress, a hangover from the slave trade days. Veteran striker Roger Milla (top right) Oman BIYIK (top left)
Kunde Emmanuel and Makanaky Cyril in the celebrations after Cameroon score against England during the FIFA World Cup quarter-final match between England and Cameroon in Naples, 1st July 1990. England won 3–2 after extra-time.
https://theundefeated.com/features/harlem-globetrotters-curly-neal-was-truly-a-global-icon/
D’Tigress Congrats On your qualification for the World Championship in Australia.
Promotion of sports in Nigeria since my journalism stint at Newswatch started straight from college and I was approached after I arrived America to recommend female stars on the Nigerian National team not as a scout but as a well-connected sports journalist.
Those recommendations included Indiana State’s Mavis Simpson, who played for Bobby Knight at Indiana State University. Well we thank God that Queen Egbo is proof of Simpson’s good stint with Bobby Knight’s teams in the 90’s.
#TheDataJinxIsBroken!
When Eagles Dare the Lions! One of the saddest moments of my career as the Sports Editor of Newswatch was watching the Super Eagles crumble in their WCQ game against perennial nemesis Cameroon at the Omnisport Stadium in Yaoundé, Cameroon in 1989. That defeat was another stumbling block in Nigeria’s perennial effort to qualify for the World Cup. They finally did in 1994. This is my opening paragraph of that story titled “ No Breaking the Jinx.” “Stephen Keshi, skipper of the Green Eagles, paused and turned misty-eyed, to take a last look at the OmniSport in Yaoundé as he descended the tunnel leading into the dressing room. Some meters away stood Osaro Obobaifo, a midfielder on the team, transfixed to a spot. He continuously muttered “How I am going to explain this (the defeat)” to no one in particular. Their World Cup dreams had just vanished like powder puff. The Eagles, once again, had been plucked down by the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon, August 27, before more than 100,000 fans at the State Omnisport in Yaounde. (My friend and brother, the Antioch, California-based Keshi died in 2016 in Nigeria of a heart-attack as he was preparing to return home to California. In this picture with Keshi taken at my Fairfield, California home is another Super Eagles defender Godwin Odiye.) This photo was at 1850 Blossom Avenue Fairfield where I was an editorial staff for the local newspaper. In Fairfield the lies are now obviously by dumb and illogical criminals based on Facebook!
Space, Wind: The Aural Pathways to Today’s Jazz Scene and Voices from the GAW Editorial Collective
https://www.globalafricanworker.com/content/space-wind-aural-pathways-today%E2%80%99s-jazz-scene
https://www.globalafricanworker.com/content/voices-gaw-editorial-collective
While slave trade ended in 1807, there are still remnants from that dark era of human kind like a troubled mother drawing blood from an innocent 12 year old son with a stab from her spatula (for what? A government research?) And Believe it or not that horrible act has to do with slavery of her mind. No sane mother would ever commit such a heinous act!
So really this is more like an era where people cannot think logically mainly because of the environment, substance abuse and pollution.
In her case repeated use and deposition of hazardous substances from unregulated wood in her bloodstream from that imported spatula aka sex toy must have caused her not to think straight.
And that is just one of the focus in the next phase in the endeavor to free Africa and black people in the diaspora.
A recommended read in this ephemeral matter is ChinweiZu’s The West and the Rest of Us: White Predators, Black Slavers and The West and the Rest of Us (1975); Toward the Decolonization of African Literature (1983).I met Chinweizu at the Literature Conference at Unical in 82.
Our next level in this disinformation initiative is the Global African Worker Institute, an online worldwide collaboration in key languages. Thank God for this endeavor initiated by Bill Fletcher, Junior. And I thank God for globally conscious journalists like my friend Shaila Dewan, the national crime editor of the New York Times.
I first met Shaila in New York at the Excelsior Hotel, and for some reason we believe they manipulated our image to become joint in a New York Hotel room. Well nothing bad really happened. Was just a meeting of two journalists and my family. We were together for about three hours. And we believe there may have been aural and photographic distortions by George Bush #43.
So how can the coverts insinuate something else when Debra my ex and Shaila Dewan are the only women who have sat on the same bed with me in America since 1991!
For the record I met Tichina Arnold, Kimberley Porter and Kidada Jones way before I met my ex.
So for other’s to insinuate something else, that has to be covert madness when there is no physical or aural link, which I believe is one of the reasons for this statement by the NY Times editorial board on anti-Semitism.
New York Times editorial board blasts ‘appalling’ anti-Semitic cartoon in Times International edition https://www.yahoo.com/news/new-york-times-editorial-board-blasts-new-york-times-for-publishing-antisemitic-cartoon-141701465.html?fbclid=IwAR0aOax7UcGYujgbrbzuBYcffyb3r_lTS8UCMT4aVvQcAFns2c0cU1MNlzE
As a Jew from Africa this is a concern.
And that is why we believe the Global African Worker is a timely initiative for a new and positive Motherland and the decolonization of the minds of Xenophobes and Racists who resent all things black and Jewish.
Launched in 2019, The Global African Worker is a web magazine, sponsored by the Global African Worker Institute, committed to a progressive, anti-imperialist and worker-centered approach to analyzing and addressing the questions and challenges facing workers of Africa and the Diasporas (the African World!)
Please take time to read this article in the online publication titled Space, Wind: The Aural Pathways to Today’s Jazz Scene, authored by Josh Myers who teaches Africana Studies at Howard University. He is the editor of A Gathering Together and sits on the editorial board of The Compass: The Journal of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations.
Excerpts “Ways of being together, thinking together, moving along a particular path emerge in ways that are discernible to locale. And where specific locations matter, so do the foundational traditions that travel beyond, and are larger than those locations. Music exists at the nexus of place and tradition. When we listen to the genre misnamed “jazz,” we hear echoes of deep African traditions, signifying on the meaning of the human condition. We hear what that life is and what we would like it to be. It is not always easy listening.
In a world that is now shrouded in neoliberal values that individualize life and make it a marketable commodity, we need to remember another kind of life, another way of living. Jazz, then, is radical possibility realized — through sound.” Remember just because you see me does not mean you know me. To think otherwise would be extreme jazz!
I and my friend Udo C. Enwereuzor who is an independent Senior Consultant on Migration, Minorities and Rights of Citizenship based in Italy are on the editorial team of this important collaboration for black people worldwide, because our work is inspired by and a continuation of the Haitian revolution, which was the first emancipation movement between 1791–1804 to eliminate slavery and colonialism.
https://www.globalafricanworker.com/
Ben Edokpayi is a well-traveled journalist who has worked in senior editorial positions for Newswatch and Tell, Nigeria; the British Broadcasting Corporation and Voice of America, as well as several newspapers in the USA including The Africa Times, Fairfield Daily Republic, The Vacaville Reporter and The Dixon Tribune, where he was the Editor between 2002 and 2006.
He has also parlayed his undiluted environmental advocacy with work in the past twelve years, as an Information Officer for the state of California at the Department of Transportation District 4, the State Compensation Insurance Fund and the Department of Toxic Substances Control, a subsidiary of the California Environmental Protection Agency.
The good foundation for his environmental advocacy was established in 1986 when an SOS from Nigerian students in Pisa, Italy alerted the Nigerian government of danger from the shipment of toxic wastes from Europe, clandestinely dumped in Koko, Delta State.
Ben exclusively traveled to Italy for an investigation and a collaboration to protect the environment with Udo C. Enwereuzor, who is an independent Senior Consultant on Migration, Minorities and Rights of Citizenship based in Italy.
Ben’s pioneer work on the environment, that started with the shipment of toxic wastes to Koko, was a spur for the 1988 UN Basel Convention which seeks to control and makes illegal the Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes between International borders. Basel. http://www.basel.int/
Mr. Enwereuzor, who is an editorial board member of the Global African Worker Institute, has been engaged in the promotion and protection of rights and social justice for migrants, refugees and national minorities in the EU since 1990.
He is a founding member of the Italian chapter of SOS Mediterranee, a European humanitarian organization that works to save lives of migrants in distress at sea through search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean.
Follow us at; https://globalafricanworker.com/
Food Security. In one of the pictures are Cameroonian Nigerian Yam Seed System Specialist
Doctor Beatrice Aighewi a lead researcher at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture and her husband my best friend Professor Daniel Aighewi, former Deputy Director The Federal Character Commission. They are both respected leaders. Their niece is the popular Chinese-American Model Adesuwa Aighewi, a former NASA intern. Sandwiched in the picture is the Mother of my daughter LeAnne.
Should we be concerned about the gross frame of Americans through Assemblage art that included the use of blood, liquefied travel meds and eggs on anatomically reconstructed parts on a Mannequin in a Satanic Lab in a nondescript White House in Delta State? A remote cause of the war between Russia and Ukraine. She has been advised to get medical help.
https://anneofcarversville.com/archives/adesuwa-aighew
https://www.vogue.co.uk/news/article/adesuwa-aighewi-on-life-in-nigeria-during-lockdown
Research To Nourish All Black People Across The Globe Yields Positive Dividends in Solano, They Ain’t Got Nothing Bad To Prove, all eyes on the ex! https://i-d.vice.com/.../adesuwa-aighewi-rihanna... Field Work! He Never Walks Alone! And The Clue And Proof With FBI and the DHS? He Is Spotlessly Clean! #FoodSecurity Is The World’s Most Security Matter! Celebrate strenght in our diverse food and cultures. Celebrate National Agriculture Week. Stay Healthy But Watch What You Eat. In collaboration with the USDA https://www.usda.gov/ FAO https://www.fao.org/home/en IITA https://www.iita.org/ In America, I am a UN Ambassador At Large since ’88 and Pro Bono An IITA Representative for 1.4 Billion People in the Motherland and Carribbean, since 2014
My friend’s Cameroonian Wife Doctor Beatrice Aighewi, is Africa’s Top Yam and Cassava Seed Expert. She and My best friend at home Professor Dan Aighewi, former Deputy Director Federal Character Commission Are Uncle and Aunty to Top Model Adesuwa Aighewi, a former NASA Intern, whose mother is Chinese-American.
