Kofi Kingston recently visited his home country of Ghana for the first time in 26 years. Kingston returned to the country of his birth for a 4-day tour with the WWE championship he won at WrestleMania. He recently took part in an interview with TMZ sports and expressed he was surprised by the reach WWE has in Ghana.
“(WWE) is actually surprisingly very big,” Kingston said. “It’s on the channel Super Sport that they play it on. So people are really well-versed in what’s going on in WWE.”
Kingston toured the country, visited the President, and saw relatives he had never seen before. A WWE camera crew was present to film scenes for an upcoming WWE Network documentary.
Kofi Kingston’s Trip To Ghana
“My mom actually had the bus that I traveled in plastered with my face on it and my whole persona, so everywhere that we were driving, I’d look out the window and then I’d see people, ‘Oh Kofi Kingston! Oh!’ So they knew, you know what I’m saying?” Kingston continued. “It was awesome. I even met somebody at the airport that had the WWE Network, so he was talking about how he watches everything that comes out, so I think that we as WWE superstars, at least I do sometimes, you forget how big of a reach that we have.”
Kingston returned from Ghana in time to appear on Smackdown this week. He teamed with Xavier Woods to defeat Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens.
“We’re always aware that we’re reaching a lot of people but we don’t really realize how wide that grasp is, that reach is until you go to somewhere like Ghana and you see everybody with their cell phones up and they’re trying to take pictures and they’re wanting to touch on my arm and just show how excited they were to see me,
Kingston will look to defend the WWE Championship tomorrow in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia against Dolph Ziggler.
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