The story of how Abdulai Bundu came to be a forward on Quinnipiac’s basketball team is an amazing one. It starts with a boy whose parents won an immigration lottery and left a warring and unstable Sierra Leone for the United States before their youngest son’s first birthday. That boy lives with grandparents, aunts, and uncles, lives in refugee camps, is held at gunpoint as a toddler. Then, when the boy is seven, he is able to join the mom and dad he hardly knows in the U.S. The boy is a tall eighth-grader in Maryland when a middle school teacher suggests he take up basketball.
Abdulai Bundu Wants You to Know the Price and Payoff of an Immigration Success Story
