When teenage Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey decided to become a professional boxer – an unlikely choice for a young woman in a working class neighborhood in Ghana – her family begged her to stop training. But Quartey persisted. And last year, at 27, she became Ghana’s first female world boxing champion and the first woman to travel the world as a member of the West African nation’s national team. Read more: https://bit.ly/43de1Sb
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