Kareem Adekunle has been through a lot.
He grew up in a Nigerian boarding house, and moved to the United States (and Gwinnett County) all alone at the age of 16. He dreamed of getting a basketball scholarship, but the offers never came. He feared he'd never go to college.
Then he found Georgia Gwinnett College.
Adekunle graduated from GGC on Tuesday — and awed his fellow graduates with an emotional speech that's been viewed nearly 10,000 times on the school's Facebook page.
Watch it below:
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