Boxer incarnate Muhammad Ali, the colourful world heavyweight champion at his bragging best in his youthful days when he visited Ghana in 1964, told a cheering crowd at an exhibition bout at Accra Stadium that he was so fast that even a slow movie camera could not correctly project the speed of his punches. Asked how he could withstand the murderous punches of Charles Sonny Liston, the fearsome bad man of boxing Ali retorted “how you can you hit a thing you can’t see”? more »

One of my fond memories of the 1988 Seoul Olympics in Korea was an inscription I saw on a colourful T-shirt, worn by an attractive African- American lady at the Games Village. It read “Try, if you don’t succeed, lower your standards”. I regard this as quite a profound message and it has tickled me since then. I would like to recommend this advice to the Ghana Football Association in their new search for TV sponsorship for the premier league. I may be wrong but my suspicion is that the league is overrated. more »