Peter Benson is associate professor of English at Fairleigh Dickinson University and the author of "Black Orpheus, Transition, and Modern Cultural Awakening in Africa." He first learned about Siki when he was teaching in Senegal in the 1990s.

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Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s (Hardcover)

By Peter Benson

$32.50

ISBN-13: 9781557288165
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: University of Arkansas Press, 5/2006

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The first book-length biography of the controversial and tragic African boxer.

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