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Africa hungers for heroes. Welcome Cassius Clay.
Cassius Clay, a hero straight from African mythology, world champion
returning to frenzied acclaim to this coast from which six million American negroes departed.
This new African mythology also includes Ray Sugar Robinson, Joe Louis, Cassius Clay, and Halimi and Cerdan, also Africans.
Wishing to create an African consciousness, Kwame Nkrumah launched a movement of young pioneers
committed, from adolescence, to becoming citizen-soldiers for whom the only law is effort.
These are the people to welcome home Clay in the name of Ghana.
Clay crossed the entire African continent receiving great acclaim wherever he went because boxing rules here: both inside the ring and out, before and after the bout.
It is a national institution that even has a bank holiday dedicated to it.
Announced by thousands of posters, each match is a ceremonial ritual. And woe betide the defeated!
Cassius Clay is his old name, today Clay is known as Mohamed Ali.
A winner, covered with glory, he has become a disciple of the sect of the “Black Muslims”.