MMA Fighter To Return To Ring After Helping Pygmy People In Africa

Justin Wren is back after a five-year hiatus in Africa

Justin Wren returns to the mixed martial arts ring this weekend after a five-year hiatus during which he lived as one with the Pygmy people in Africa, whom he helped secure their own land and launch sustainable farming initiatives. He wrote this essay on his time in Africa and his reasons for getting back in the ring.

“Can you help give us a voice? We have none.”

The Pygmy chief looked up at me, trying to hide the urgency in his eyes.

Only two days earlier, I’d held the lifeless body of a Pygmy baby who had succumbed to water-borne disease and malnutrition. His name was Andibo. He’d been the last living relative in his family besides his mother.

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