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WATCH: GGC student breaks down during emotional graduation speech

Kareem Adekunle delivered an emotional speech Tuesday at Georgia Gwinnett College's summer commencement ceremony. (Screenshot)
Kareem Adekunle delivered an emotional speech Tuesday at Georgia Gwinnett College's summer commencement ceremony. (Screenshot)
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Aug 3, 2016

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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