By MICHAEL MIYOBABEING a street kid in a country considered as one of the poorest in the world can be extremely traumatic, because as a kid you are exposed to high levels of hunger, violence and diseases.To survive street life, street kids often turn to substance abuse as a way of escaping the harsh realities of life on the street.However, the country’s first ever professional Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter, Robert “The Black Tiger” Simbowe managed to survive the many cold nights of living with no food, no shelter and sleeping under bridges to become a professional MMA fighter.Born on August 14, 1987, Simbowe, as the only child lost his parents in 2000 to became an orphan and slept on the streets of Lusaka where he met other street kids who had no place to call home.Simbowe lived on the streets until he was taken in by the Fountain of Hope Orphanage located in Lusaka’s […]
ROB SIMBOWE: Black Tiger’s story
