Legendary Rwandan shooting guard Kenneth Gasana has joined national league side Tigers on a one-year-contract as assistant coach, club president Francis Shyaka confirmed to Times Sport on Monday. The deal will see the 40-year-old join Henry Mwinuka’s backroom staff throughout the 2026 season which will commence on January 24, 2026. Gasana was most recently part of the coaching staff of the national team that competed in the first window of the 2027 FIBA World Cup Africa qualifiers held in Radès, Tunisia, in November. He first represented Rwanda as a player in 2009 at the FIBA AfroBasket Championship in Libya, where he became the team’s top scorer, averaging 18.3 points per game and helping Rwanda to a 9th-place finish — their best-ever performance at the time. He later played professionally in Morocco, featuring for Hoceima and Plaza Sports Basketball Club before returning to play for Patriots with whom they reached the semifinals of the first season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL). ALSO READ: Gasana embraces player-coach duties On international stage, Gasana cemented his status as a key figure in Rwandan basketball for over a decade, captaining the national team during the FIBA World Cup 2023 qualifiers and leading the squad at the 2023 AfroBasket in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, where Rwanda finished 10th out of 16. Born on November 9, 1984, in Texas, USA, Gasana remains one of the most respected figures in the country’s basketball history.
