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- 1 2 Daily Nation, 1 April 2009: Kenya’s Owino joins top USA basketball team
- ↑ Daily Nation, 2 April 2009: Dribbling to the American dream
- ↑ "Josephine Owino | Athlete Information | Union University, a Christian College in Tennessee". www.uu.edu. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
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