Roy Ankrah (Left) the
featherweight champion of the British Empire with Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, leader of
the independence movement of the Gold Coast which later became Ghana. (CREDIT:
James Barnor)
African
boxing and boxers merged into the consciousness of the different societies
fighting for liberation from colonial control and as such the careers of the
most successful ones became entwined with the nationalist sentiments of the day
as the connection between Roy Ankrah’s British Empire title win and Kwame
Nkrumah’s release from British detention showed.
- Excerpt
from “The Africans: Boxing and Africa” by Adeyinka Makinde, Chapter 8 of the Cambridge Companion to Boxing.
© Adeyinka
Makinde (2019)
Adeyinka
Makinde is the author of Dick Tiger: The
Life and Times of a Boxing Immortal and Jersey
Boy: The Life and Mob Slaying of Frankie DePaula. He is also a contributor
to the Cambridge Companion to Boxing.
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