Muhammad Ali

Death has surely come as a merciful release for Muhammad Ali, for it has ended an agonising 30-year struggle with Parkinson’s disease - the one opponent even The Greatest couldn’t beat.

There’s a lot of history that is not found in school textbooks. In 1980 for instance, the greatest boxer of all time, Muhammad Ali visited Kenya for a very peculiar reason. US President Jimmy Carter had announced that the US would…