Drum Magazine social history photographs, Ghana edition 35

Ghana, 1967. Call Me Mister Muscles – He picks up a 50 Kilo bag of cement with his teeth and makes child's play of two daughters. He-man Armstrong (full name Armstrong Tijani Lawani), left his home at Pig Farm, a suburb of Accra, to call on a friend. Suddenly he found himself called upon to use the immense strength hidden under his flowing robes in some hair-raising feats.