ACCRA, Ghana — When Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey decided as a teenager to become a professional boxer – an unusual choice for a young woman in a working-class neighborhood of Ghana's capital of ...

Last year, at age 27, she became Ghana’s first female world boxing champion and the first woman to travel the world as a member of the West African nation’s national team. Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey, ...

But like most sports in Ghana, boxing has often been seen as for men only, and women are discouraged from taking part. Report an error ...

But Quartey persisted. And last year, at age 27, she became Ghana’s first female world boxing champion and the first woman to travel the world as a member of the West African nation's national team.

And last year, at age 27, she became Ghana’s first female world boxing champion and the first woman to travel the world as a member of the West African nation's national team. “My aunts and ...