I Played Basketball for Gaddafi
Nigerian-born American basketball player Alex Owumi explains how he was trapped in Benghazi for 16 days without food and water.
In 2010, the Nigerian-born American basketball player Alex Owumi took up an offer to join a team in the Libyan city of Benghazi. He was shocked to find that the team had a very powerful owner - Colonel Gaddafi himself. It was the start of a nightmare ordeal, as he found himself caught up in the Libyan revolution.
Also on this edition of Outlook - Graham Nash from supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young talks to ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ reporter Sarfraz Mansoor about his rise to fame and the hedonistic excess that followed.
Matthew Bannister speaks to Tracy Singo, the South African woman who's managing to live a normal life, despite having a bullet lodged in her brain after a violent robbery.
Plus we hear from Trevor Price, the American university professor who was taken hostage whilst birdwatching in Kashmir.
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