Mohamed Ali Lane

Walking along the back lanes of the buildings at Mohd Ali Lane is like a walk into the past. An interesting trade from the past can still be found. These are back lane barbers which are a rare sight in Singapore today.  Second-hand goods dealers of all kinds of items, including many wares from the past welcome pedestrians who walk along the lane. What is considered as junk to some are seen as treasures to others here.

Could this road be named after Muhammad Ali, the Boxer, from Louisville, Kentucky neighborhood?  Muhammad Ali would stretch his "fifteen minutes of fame" into an incredible legacy that will last for generations to come.  Muhammad Ali's greatest moments came in the life he led outside the ring. Muhammad Ali was as confident in the public circle as he was in the boxing ring, and he continued to meet every challenge with a mind that was as powerful as his fists. As a black man living in an era that continued to question his rights as a person, Ali faced and battled issues of race and class, and to this day ranks as one of the champions of the Civil Rights movement.  Muhammad Ali's conversion to Islam,  and his subsequent refusal to be inducted into the military, created the largest controversy of his life and he was stripped of his heavyweight title. 

Updated On: 05.01.08