Serge Ibaka

The Congolese-Spanish NBA- and European Championship-winning basketball player began collaborating musically with Afrobeats and rap artists from across the African diaspora in the early 2020s. Serge Ibaka was born in Brazzaville, the Republic of the Congo's capital, in September 1989. Both of his parents were national-level basketball players, but Ibaka's mother died when he was just seven years old. His father's health issues and incarceration as a political prisoner also meant that Ibaka rarely saw him during his early life. Although these formative years in a war-torn count...