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AfroBasket: Ongwae’s buzzer-beater that made Kenya smile

Tylor Ongwae in action against Angola during the 2021 Fiba Afrobasket qualifiers in Yaounde, Cameroon on February 20, 2021. [FIBA]

Tylor Ongwae and the current Kenya Morans are inextricably linked in the minds of all Kenyans.

It is impossible to recall those images during the AfroBasket qualifiers held in Cameroon earlier this year and not immediately think of Ongwae’s dagger jump shot that sent Kenya to the AfroBasket for the first time in 28 years.

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