
What Muhammad Ali Believed
Muhammad Ali’s political life was like his boxing career: as frustrating and contradictory as it was principled and selfless.
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Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.

Muhammad Ali’s political life was like his boxing career: as frustrating and contradictory as it was principled and selfless.

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When your Uber driver has never heard of Muhammad Ali you realize you’re not his friend and you and he occupy different worlds.

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It’s hard not to imagine what could have been, or indeed could be in postcolonial Ghana if the political will and right management was in place.


The government is using the refugee population as red meat in local politics and a bargaining chip for more international aid.

The little-known story of how US-based Pan Africanists responded to white racism and a corrupt school system by founding their own schools in the 1960s and 1970s.