Drum Magazine social history photographs, Ghana edition 34

Ghana, 1967. Call Me Mister Muscles: He asked ten lads to straighten his arms. They pulled but he remained as muscle-bound as a steel spring. 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.