Giant basketball legend Mutombo meets WTO DG Okonjo-Iweala [PHOTOS]

Two giants from the African continent, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the world’s first female Director-General of the World Trade Organisation and the continent’s first to be elected the DG of the GATTS and Congo DR-born American NBA Hall of Famer, Dikembe Mutombo, took the social media by storm yesterday when the picture they took at United Nations headquarters in New York, USA went viral on Twitter.

Okonjo-Iweala could not but marvel at Mutombo’s 2.18m height as she stands next to him for the picture. Mutombo towers above her at quite a glaring imposition!

While Okonjo-Iweala’s brilliance with figures previously earned her the plum job of Nigeria’s two-term Minister of Finance before landing the WTO top post, Mutombo played 18 seasons in the National Basketball Association with Atlanta Hawks, Denver Nuggets, Philadelphia 76ers and Houston Rockets to become one of the legends of the game from Africa with the like of Hakeem Olajuwon…