In the quiet southern town of Ashland, Oregon, former Somali national basketball players and their families gather each year to reknit bonds scattered by civil war. The reunion is more than a series of basketball games. It has become a space where stories as ancient as time are rekindled & for youth, lit for the first time. It is a gathering that symbolizes resilience– and a belief by all that even far from their ancestral land, the saga continues.

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