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Wrestling's Jamaican star - from Ghana
By Leslie Goffe
BBC Focus On Africa magazine

To millions of US wrestling fans, Kofi Kingston is the first Jamaican wrestler in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). But his real identity is very different - because to his family and friends, he is Kofi Sarkodie-Mensah from Ghana.
Sarkodie-Mensah 'competes' under the flag of Jamaica

Most wrestling fans have probably never heard of the West African country, so the wrestling body decided fight fans would be more likely to embrace a wrestler from the land of Bob Marley and reggae music.

And so desperate is Sarkodie-Mensah to become wrestling's next superstar, he is willing to deny who he is. ....

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