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Headley himself was conscious about his African roots in the proudest possible way. When he had entered Australia for the 1930-31 tour, he had put in ‘African’ on the immigration. The dreams of the black communities rose with his soaring deeds. On coming across a photograph of a line of cricketers, Headley Among them, waiting to meet George VI, historian Frank Birbalsingh remarked: “That one of us —a black man — could shake the hand of a king introduced possibilities formerly undreamt of in our colonial backwater of racial inferiority, psychological subordination and political powerlessness.”