This African boxing legend will be a keynote speaker at RootsTech 2022

Samuel Azumah Nelson, a Corridor of Fame Boxer, will likely be a keynote speaker at RootsTech, a free on-line international household historical past convention March 3-5, 2022.

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Samuel Azumah Nelson, an African boxing champion, will likely be a keynote speaker at RootsTech’s on-line international household historical past convention March 3-5, 2022.

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An African boxing legend will be part of the rising record of keynote audio system at RootsTech 2022, FamilySearch introduced Wednesday.

Samuel Azumah Nelson, the winner of three featherweight world championships and a member of the Worldwide Boxing Corridor of Fame, will inform about his life journey and heritage as a part of the free, all-virtual household historical past convention scheduled for March 3-5.

“I would like to point out you the place my braveness and dedication to succeed got here from” Nelson stated in a FamilySearch information launch. “I'm a proud Ghanaian with a Tabon DNA, energy and spirit. You should be focused on your loved ones historical past and to stay the values it represents.”

As a part of his pre-recorded message, the boxer explains that the Tabon individuals had been former slaves in Brazil. After slavery was abolished within the late 1800s, his household joined with six others and returned to their African homeland from which their ancestors had been taken. His household modified later modified their title to Nelson.

Samuel Azumah Nelson, an African boxing champion, will likely be a keynote speaker at RootsTech’s on-line international household historical past convention March 3-5, 2022.

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The group was welcomed dwelling and sheltered by the ruling tribes. They cast new lives as tailors, architects and farmers, though incomes a residing was tough.

Nelson, who was nicknamed “Zoom Zoom,” was pressured to work at an early age to assist present for his giant household and missed out on formal schooling alternatives. A life-changing encounter he had as a younger boy with a person holding a pair of boxing footwear began Nelson on a path to boxing.

Though we come from completely different backgrounds and cultures, we're all household, Nelson stated.

“Even with our completely different family tree, we're a part of the worldwide household,” he stated. “If solely we will remind ourselves that no matter political affiliation, race, tribe, gender, nation and religion, all of us belong to at least one huge household of God, I consider the world will likely be a gorgeous place to stay in.”

Nelson joins actor Matthew Modine, French baker Apollonia Poilâne and Argentine singer and actor Diego Torres as keynote audio system at RootsTech.

Elder Ulisses Soares, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and his spouse, Sister Rosana Soares, would be the featured keynote audio system at occasion’s Household Discovery Day.

RootsTech 2022 will observe the identical on-line mannequin because it did in 2021. The occasion will characteristic internationally various keynote audio system and a mixture of on-demand, livestream and interactive classes the place individuals can join with one another, ask questions and study from specialists.

Register for RootsTech 2022 at rootstech.org.