Kofi Kingston

Kofi Sarkodie-Mensah was born in 1982, in The Republic of Ghana, in West Africa.
He is a professional wrestler, better known under his ring name, Kofi Kingston. He is currently signed to WWE working on the WWE Raw brand, where he is the reigning WWE Intercontinental Wrestling Champion.

On December 6, 2007, a series of vignettes for Kingston's television debut began airing on ECW.
During this introduction phase the videos, official WWE website, and the ECW commentators all made note that he would be the first Jamaican-born person to wrestle for the company. He debuted on January 22, 2008. After wrestling sporadic matches, Kingston was involved in his first major match; a 24-man battle royal during the Wrestlemania XXIV pre-show with the winner receiving an ECW Championship match, but was eliminated by Mark Henry. Kingston remained undefeated in singles competition in ECW for months and was placed in to a feud with Shelton Benjamin at the end of April 2008. After two straight losses, Benjamin got a win over Kingston on the May 20 episode of ECW, though their feud continued until Kingston was sent to the Raw brand in the WWE Draft lottery.

As part of the 2008 WWE Supplemental Draft, Kingston was drafted to the Raw brand. At Night of Champions he defeated Chris Jericho to take the Intercontinental Championship in his first match as a member of the Raw roster.
Even though Kofi isn't actually Jamaican, His win did make history. He is the first Ghanaian wrestler to hold a championship in the WWE.