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Perhaps the most upsetting of these is the insinuation that Africans have contributed nothing to the world at large and are a people who had no valid history or culture. This was probably what upset the great Chinua Achebe and drove him to produce the works that sought to recast the image of the African in the eyes of Europeans. In the process, Achebe so skillfully employed the English language that the English could not but learn from him. The turnaround was only possible because the African became literate. Nii Ayikai Adjin-Tettey’s effort to chronicle Ghanaian sports in his lifetime is, therefore, commendable. It is indeed a bold attempt to salvage the history of Ghanaian sports from distortion and he approaches the task with near impeccable credentials. This is a man who was once the fastest West African, three times the Chief Coach of the African Athletics team, a former Chairman of the Ghana Amateur Athletic Association, a co-founder of the Dansoman Keep Fit Club and initiator of the internationally acclaimed Accra Milo Marathon. Clearly, Nii Ayikai’s experience and first-hand knowledge of many of these sporting events, as well as his personal relations with the great sportsmen and women who built Ghana’s past reputation in sports places him in a unique and authoritative position to write on Ghana’s sports history.

Hilda wasn’t about to bow down to anybody and broke away, finally achieving full emancipation. A social history of life in South Liverpool plus the story of Parkgate Baths on The Wirral provide the early background for this extraordinary book. The final chapters are set against the backdrop of life as a celebrity crewmember aboard Cunard’s first purpose built cruise liner, Carinthia.

combined with a fresh style of play to match their new home brought a change of fortune which meant that the England team would barely loose a match from then until the outbreak of the First World War. In many ways the rugby played today is very different to that which graced the playing fields of a hundred years ago. In many places modern terminology that would have been quite unknown at the time is used but it hopefully simplifies matters for the modern reader.

before the cruel intervention of World War Two, which wrote off the Games of 1940 and 1944 when the maturing Dorothy might reasonably have been expected to challenge for gold. Returning to serious competition in 1948 as a young mother, Dorothy capitalised on the home Olympic opportunity, when London was offered and accepted as host city, with the athletics events being staged at the impressive ready-made Wembley Stadium Dorothy's story moves from her junior school tomboy days, to precocious teenage triumphs, the daunting war years when sport went virtually on hold, to a delayed, long and finally very successful senior career. Later, Dorothy took to coaching with enthusiasm and did much to help her beloved Mitcham AC develop. She worked as an unpaid technical athletics official, and she also acted as team manager, accompanying British athletes abroad on several occasions. When her serious athletics career finished she worked in two schools, predominantly as a games teacher. Later in retirement, Dorothy joined husband Dick at the Croham Hurst Club in South Croydon to become a keen and successful golfer. National recognition came in 2000 when she was awarded an MBE, which she felt was long overdue, a view she claimed to have confided to Prince Charles during the investiture. Really she felt that she deserved to have made a Dame, a view which she expressed to many listeners in the years that followed. To say that she was an extremely interesting character would be the understatement of the century.