Muhammad Ali

Forgotten Kenyan Luminaries who should be in the Kenya Hall of Fame: At the bottom of this page  is a brief list of Kenyans from the 19th and 20th centuries who played a worthy, significant and notable

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…