Kenneth Gasana (born Kenneth Wilson; November 9, 1984) is a Rwandan professional

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player who currently plays for

Bangui Sporting Club Bangui Sporting Club, also known as Bangui SC, is a Central African basketball team based in Bangui. The team plays in the Bangui Basketball League (LBBB) and has won the championship in 2022 and 2023. In the 2024 season, Bangui played in the ...

of the

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. Born in the

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, he represents the team of

Rwanda Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by ...

internationally.

Career

Gasana played his final two years of

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for

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. Gasana started his professional career in 2007. In 2010, Gasana joined Moroccan club

Chabab Rif Al Hoceima Chabab Rif Al-Hoceima, also referred to as CRA, is a Moroccan football club based in Al Hoceima Al Hoceima () is a city in the north of Morocco, on the northern edge of the Rif Mountains and on the Mediterranean coast. It is the capital city ...

for one season which was followed by another season at Spaza Sports BC. In the 2014–15 season, he played in Egypt with Gezira. His third team in Morocco was

Ittihad Tanger Ittihad Riadi Tanger (; ), often shortened to IR Tanger or the abbreviation IRT, is a Moroccan football club based in Tangier, that competes in Botola, Morocco's top professional football league. The club was founded in 1936 as Unión Deportiva ...

, which he joined in 2018. In 2019, Gasana signed with Rwanda-based

REG BBC Rwanda Energy Group BBC, commonly known as REG, is a Rwandan basketball club based in Kigali. It is owned and named after the company Rwanda Energy Group Limited. It plays in the Rwanda Basketball League (RBL), the highest tier of basketball in R ...

to play in the Rwandan National Basketball League. In October 2019, he joined the defending champions

Patriots BBC Patriots Basketball Club, also known as Patriots, is a professional basketball club based in Kigali, Rwanda. Established in 2014, it plays its home games at Amahoro Indoor Stadium. The team is a four-time champion of the Rwanda Basketball League ( ...

. He went on to win the championship in 2019 and 2020 with Patriots. He also played with the team in the

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, where he led his team in scoring with 14.3 points per game. The Patriots finished in the fourth place of the tournament. In November 2021, Gasana joined Burundian team New Star on a temporary contract, to join them in the 2022 BAL qualifiers. New Star failed to qualify, as the team was disqualified after players tested positive for COVID-19. On January 5, 2022, Gasana signed with

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of the

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. In May 2022, Gasana joined REG for a second stint ahead of the team's campaign in the 2022 BAL Playoffs. They were eliminated after just one game, losing to FAP. After the BAL, Gasana returned to Patriots BBC. In November 2022, Gasana played for

in the

National team career

Although he was born in

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, Texas, Gasana plays for the Rwandan national team and has been one of its top scorers through various editions of

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. He played with Rwanda at the

five times: in

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

and

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

BAL career statistics

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Personal

Gasana holds a

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in Communications from

Boise State University Boise State University (BSU) is a Public university, public research university in Boise, Idaho, United States. Founded in 1932 by the Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopal Church, it became an independent junior college in 1934 and has b ...

References

External links

Eurobasket.com profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gasana, Kenny 1984 births Living people ABA All-Star Game players American expatriate basketball people in Rwanda Basketball players from San Antonio Boise State Broncos men's basketball players Junior college men's basketball players in the United States New Star BBC players Sportspeople from Kigali Rwandan men's basketball players Rwandan people of American descent Shooting guards REG BBC players Patriots BBC players Gezira basketball players Bangui Sporting Club players