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Trip to Rwanda gives a new definition of toughness to Adam Seiko

SDSU senior guard Adam Seiko said he prides himself on his toughness.

His defensive mentality on the court has led to him becoming one of the Aztecs’ best defenders as well as being a leader, but while playing for the Ugandan national basketball team in the AfroBasket tournament in Rwanda, a Rwandan tour bus driver gave toughness a new meaning for Seiko.

The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 killed between 500,000 and 800,000 among the Tutsi ethnic minority community. One of the Tutsi who survived happened to be the tour bus driver for Seiko and his family as they toured Rwanda on his first trip to Africa.