Forest Whitaker and Dambisa Moyo join group of strategic investors in NBA Africa

Zambian-born Global economist, international public speaker, and four-time New York Times best-selling author, Dr. Dambisa Moyo teams up with Academy Award-winning actor and social activist, Forest Whitaker to join NBA Africa as strategic investors. The CEO of NBA Africa was thrilled about the newcomers. [embed]http://www.instagram.com/p/CXv27gWMUE1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link[/embed] [caption id="attachment_12697" align="alignright" width="225"] Dambisa Moyo[/caption] Previously a consultant for World Bank, a research economist, and a strategist at Goldman Sachs, Moyo holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry, an MBA from American University, and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a doctorate in Economics from the University of Oxford.

I have loved sport all my life and I am hugely grateful for the opportunity to support basketball in Africa at an elite level. Basketball has a great capacity to be a positive force for communities across this amazing continent."

[caption id="attachment_12698" align="alignleft" width="204"] Forest Whitaker[/caption] American producer, director, humanitarian and activist. Whitaker has been recognized for far too numerous awards in film. He has been inducted as a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Goodwill Ambassador.      

The game of basketball is incredibly inspirational, and my decade working in Africa has shown me how sports can be a transformative method of helping to foster peace, as well as an economic engine for socioeconomic development in areas of conflict.  I deeply believe in the league’s commitment to youth empowerment and am so excited to work alongside the NBA Africa family." says Whitaker