{UAH} ALI, THE AFRICAN'S CHAMPION!

The younger generation might be wondering who is this Muhammad Ali that everyone is mourning.
Well, this would be a perfect time for them to read about his life and activism. Watch his fights and the amazing interviews he had with the news channels.
He was called the greatest because even if you put footballs Christiano Ronaldo, Messi, Rooney and Zidane together in the red corner of the ring, that still can't get to a fraction of what Muhammad Ali meant to people around the globe.
Not only was he a great charismatic world champion, he was also far greater than sports. He fought the black man's struggle when racism and segregation were institutionalized staple. That's how recent apartheid still existed in the United States.
The same bigotry wants to make a veiled comeback through Mr. Trump. When he said he wanted to expel Muslims, Muhammad Ali immediately stood up against the Republican candidate.
He wasn't alone. Former President Jimmy Carter recently joined in and declared: "The Trump campaign is racist."
Ali suffered at similar hands, and the bitterness from those humiliating insults, arrests and time in jail obviously never left him.
At home we admired Muhammad Ali both on and off the ring. My father being a former boxer, he watched the American closely at a technical level. He enjoyed the Americans antiques during his fights and also out in the public. The World boxing heavyweight championship fights, like many other sports events, were relayed live via satellite to the whole country.
But Amin also followed Muhamnad Ali's political activism within the US civil rights movement. The plight of black people in America was a major concern for all pan-africanists. Today that flame should be revived across Africa. Particularly within the African Union.
The "Rumble in the Jungle" fight in Kinshasa against George Foreman was a deliberate move by the American black community towards the entire African continent. And what a fight it was.
Muhammad Ali was a person in a league of his own. He already fought so well with his fists, yet he fought even better with his words.
Rest In Peace World Champion.

To God we will all return.

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