On the drive home, Ali told Kolb he believed that every person on Earth had an angel watching him all the time. He hugged them and kissed them and told them to go with God. “Tomorrow we can go home.” Ali fed them and then drove them in his Rolls-Royce to their low-budget airport hotel. “Today we found you,” he said, according to Kolb. The elderly man said they had travelled all the way from Tanzania, going first to Chicago in search of Ali. Muhammad hugged the little boy and performed a magic trick for him. The boy carried a Big Mac in a paper bag: a food offering for Ali. “We are here,” the elderly man said, “because-before I die-I wish to introduce my grandson to the great Muhammad Ali.”Īli told Kolb to let them in. One day in November 1982, an elderly African man and a young boy rang the doorbell of Muhammad Ali’s big white house in Hancock Park. THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE is an extract from Ali: A Life.
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