Resnick, Mike - Mwalimu in the Squared Circle

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Mwalimu in the Squared circle
_While this effort was being made, Amin postured:
"I challenge President Nyerere in the boxing ring to
fight it out there rather than that soldiers lose
their lives on the field of battle...Mohammed Ali
would be an ideal referee for the bout."
-- George Ivan Smith
GHOSTS OF KAMPALA (1980)
As the Tanzanians began to counterattack, Amin
suggested a crazy solution to the dispute. He declared
that the matter should be settled in the boxing ring.
"I am keeping fit so that I can challenge President
Nyerere in the boxing ring and fight it out there,
rather than having the soldiers lose their lives on
the field of battle." Amin added that Mohammed Ali
would be an ideal referee for the bout, and that he,
Amin, as the former Uganda heavyweight champ, would
give the small, white-haired Nyerere a sporting chance
by fighting with one arm tied behind his back, and his
legs shackled with weights.
-- Dan Wooding and Ray Barnett
UGANDA HOLOCAUST (1980)_
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Nyerere looks up through the haze of blood masking his vision
and sees the huge man standing over him, laughing. He looks into
the man's eyes and seems to see the dark heart of Africa, savage
and untamed.
He cannot remember quite what he is doing here. Nothing
hurts, but as he tries to move, nothing works, either. A black man
in a white shirt, a man with a familiar face, seems to be pushing
the huge man away, maneuvering him into a corner. Chuckling and
posturing to people that Nyerere cannot see, the huge man backs
away, and now the man in the white shirt returns and begins
shouting.
_"Four!"_
Nyerere blinks and tries to clear his mind. Who is he, and
why is he on his back, half-naked, and who are these other two
men?
_"Five!"_
"Stay down, Mwalimu!" yells a voice from behind him, and now
it begins to come back to him. _He_ is Mwalimu.
_"Six!"_
He blinks again and sees the huge electronic clock above him.
It is one minute and 58 seconds into the first round. He is
Mwalimu, and if he doesn't get up, his bankrupt country has lost
the war.
_"Seven!"_
He cannot recall the last minute and 58 seconds. In fact, he
cannot recall anything since he entered the ring. He can taste his
blood, can feel it running down over his eyes and cheeks, but he
cannot remember how he came to be bleeding, or laying on his back.
It is a mystery.
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