Kofi Nahaje Sarkodie-Mensah is a Ghanaian-American professional wrestler signed to WWE, under the ring name Kofi Kingston, has releases a beautiful back tattoos of Adinkra symbols from his homeland Ghana.
These include:
– Dwennimmen (Ram’s horns) which symbolizes humility and strength. The ram will fight fiercely against an adversary, but will also submit humbly to slaughter, emphasizing that, even the strong needs to be humble…
– Dɛnkyɛm (crocodile) which symbolises Adaptability…
– Akofena (Sword of war) which symbolises courage and valour…
– Funtunfunefu-Dɛnkyɛmfunefu (an image of Siamese crocodile), which is also a symbol of unity. These crocodiles share one stomach so neither of them survives without the other. This is a reminder that infighting is counterproductive…
– Akoben (War-horn) which is a symbol of vigilance and wariness…
More about Kofi Kingston after 11 years in WWE won the title from Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania 35 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, and you can imagine the emotions coursing through him.
“It’s so emotional. Like, you work so hard to get here and sometimes you work as hard as you can and things aren’t going your way, you know? And you don’t know if the hard work is going to pay off. It’s paying off right now. It just feels surreal. It feels like a legitimate dream. … I feel like I’m in a dream, and I don’t want to wake up.”
He goes on to say that maybe the best part is how much support everyone gave him, not just the fans but his contemporaries. He is a true babyface you can’t help but love and appreciate.
