11 Things We Learned From WWE 24: Kofi Kingston

11. The Reason For His Return To Ghana

It might seem as though WWE cynically sent Kofi Kingston packing to Ghana the moment he won the top title, hoping to exploit the positive publicity that'd naturally follow from crowning their first ever African-born WWE champion. Not so: it was actually a happy coincidence.

Born in Kumasi, Asante in 1981, Kofi Kingston's parents emigrated to the United States when he was just two years old, settling in Boston, MA as they chased the American dream. The last time he had visited the country of his birth before his recent tour was way back in 1993, when he was just 12 years ago - meaning his trip as not just a WWE superstar, but their number one guy, was a pretty big deal.

Kofi was invited back to the country as part of the 'Year of Return' campaign, commemorating 400 years since the first enslaved African arrived in North America. The programme aims to make Ghana the focus of descendants of marginalised Africans by reconnecting them with their ancestral identity. That this event happened to coincide with Kingston claiming wrestling's biggest prize couldn't have created a more perfect context for his first return home in over quarter of a century.