Soccer dreams turned to engineering for young African : vima

Janvier Fataki, born in war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, spent most of his young life in a refugee camp in Burundi before resettling in Roanoke with his mother. He finished high school here and started college in Tennessee, before family tragedy paused his dreams. Now he's refocusing.

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