Muhammad Ali's legacy lives on

Having once refused to be drafted into the American Army to serve in the Vietnam War, Mr Ali was stripped of his titles for four years, yet he was not remorseful for his action.

According to him, he did not see the sense in going to kill people in far-off lands when the enemy was within America, where the rights of black men had been trampled upon.

Muhammad Ali was an embodiment of consistency and determination, a man who did not allow fame to go to his head as would with lesser men.

Boxing fans will remember his famous claim that though he had conquered the world, he did not derive much satisfaction from his exploits. Ali ranks alongside other American civil rights crusaders like Martin Luther King whose prophesy of the black man’s victory was fulfilled with the election of Barrack Obama as the first black president of America, a country to which blacks were taken as slaves.

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