Mandela, the boxer. "I was never an outstanding boxer," he writes in Long Walk to Freedom. "I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved one's body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match. Boxing is egalitarian. In the ring, rank, age, colour, and wealth are irrelevant." Image sourced from Africa Within
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