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Chukwuemeka Ndubuisi Okafor, abbreviated as Emeka Okafor, is a professional basketball player playing at power forward and center for the Charlotte Bobcats of the National Basketball Association. Prior to the NBA, The 6'10" (2.08 m) Okafor attended Houston's Bellaire High School, and the University of Connecticut. On July 29, 2008, he agreed to a 6 year $72 million dollar extension. Okafor will enter the 2008-09 season with active franchise-record streaks of 93 consecutive games played and 92 consecutive games started.

Emeka is a well established member of the African blogosphere, a leading thinker, and as Erik Hersman stated a doer. He also manages and coordinates one of the world’s top technology conferences held in Africa: TED Global . He is responsible for assembling a list of speakers that speak to the heart of the new Africa -- the "cheetah generation" of inventors and investors, policymakers and bloggers, who are bringing new energy to the African continent. His two blogs should be considered regular reading for anyone interested in technological development in Africa. His first blog, Timbuktu Chronicles seeks to spur dialogue in areas of entrepreneurship, technology and the scientific method as it impacts Africa. It aggregates some of the most interesting and exciting models of entrepreneurship happening in Sub-Saharan Africa. The second blog, Africa Unchained allows Emeka to "think out loud" about paradigms of development, innovation and politics. Emeka is an entrepreneu...