AFROSURF
(Sprache: Englisch)
Discover the untold story of African surf culture in this glorious and colorful collection of profiles, essays, photographs, and illustrations.
AFROSURF is the first book to capture and celebrate the surfing culture of Africa. This unprecedented...
AFROSURF is the first book to capture and celebrate the surfing culture of Africa. This unprecedented...
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Discover the untold story of African surf culture in this glorious and colorful collection of profiles, essays, photographs, and illustrations. AFROSURF is the first book to capture and celebrate the surfing culture of Africa. This unprecedented collection is compiled by Mami Wata, a Cape Town surf company that fiercely believes in the power of African surf. Mami Wata brings together its co-founder Selema Masekela and some of Africa's finest photographers, thinkers, writers, and surfers to explore the unique culture of eighteen coastal countries, from Morocco to Somalia, Mozambique, South Africa, and beyond. Packed with over fifty essays, AFROSURF features surfer and skater profiles, thought pieces, poems, photos, illustrations, ephemera, recipes, and a mini comic, all wrapped in an astounding design that captures the diversity and character of Africa.
A creative force of good in their continent, Mami Wata sources and manufactures all their wares in Africa and works with communities to strengthen local economies through surf tourism. With this mission in mind, Mami Wata is donating 100% of their proceeds to support two African surf therapy organizations, Waves for Change and Surfers Not Street Children.
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Popular histories of surfing tell us that Polynesians were the only people to develop surfing, that the first account of surfing was written in Hawaii in 1778, and that Bruce Brown, Robert August, and Mike Hynson introduced surfing to West Africa. All these claims are incorrect. The modern surf cultures currently developing along Africa s long shoreline are not something new and introduced; they are a rebirth the remembering and reimagining of 1,000-year-old traditions.
The first known account of surfing was written in 1640, in what is now Ghana. Surfing developed independently from Senegal to Angola. Africa possesses thousands of miles of warm surf-filled waters, and populations of strong swimmers and seagoing fishermen and merchants who knew surf patterns and crewed surf-canoes capable of catching and riding waves upward of ten feet high.
Africans surfed on three-to five-foot-long wooden surfboards in prone, sitting, kneeling, or standing
positions, and in small one-person canoes. Despite Brown s claim that The Endless Summer
(1965/1966) introduced surfing to Ghana, if viewers shift their eyes away from August and Hynson they will see the Ga youth of Labadi Village, near Accra, Ghana, riding traditional surfboards, which can still be found at some beaches. The ability of Ga men, in the film, to stand on the Americans longboards illustrates their surfing tradition.
Africans also rode longboards, about twelve feet in length, and used them to paddle several miles. English anthropologist Robert Rattray provided the best description and photographs of paddleboards on Lake Bosumtwi, located about one hundred miles inland of Cape Coast, Ghana. The Asante believe the anthropomorphic lake god Twi prohibited canoes on the lake. Keeping with divine sanction, people fished from paddleboards, called padua or mpadua (plural), and used them to traverse this five-mile-wide crater lake.
German merchant-adventurer Michael
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Hemmersam provided the first known record of surfing, which
is problematic, as he described a sport that was new to him. Believing he was watching Gold Coast children who were probably Fante, in the Cape Coast, Ghana, area learn to swim, he wrote that parents tie their children to boards and throw them into the water. Other Europeans provided similar descriptions. However, most Africans learned to swim when they were about sixteen months old, and with more positive reinforcement; such lessons would have resulted in many drowned children.
Later accounts are unambiguous. For instance, in 1834, while at Accra, Ghana, James Alexander wrote; From the beach, meanwhile, might be seen boys swimming into the sea, with light boards under their stomachs. They waited for a surf; and came rolling like a cloud on top of it.
There are also accounts of Africans bodysurfing. In 1887, an English traveler watched an African man named Sua, at home in his element, dancing up and down and doing fancy performances with the rollers, as if he had lived since his infancy as much in the water as on dry land. As a wave approached, he turns his face to the shore, and rising onto the top of it he strikes out vigorously with it towards land, and is carried dashing in at a tremendous speed after the same manner, as the [surf-canoes] beach themselves.
Fishermen often surfed their six-foot-long paddleboards and surf-canoes that weighed about fifteen pounds. Accounts describe both from the Cape Verde Islands, Ivory Coast, Congo-Angola, and Cameroon, with the Kru canoes of Liberia particularly heavily documented. In 1861, Thomas Hutchinson observed Batanga fishermen from southern Cameroon riding surf-canoes no more than six feet in length, fourteen to sixteen inches in width, and from four to six inches
is problematic, as he described a sport that was new to him. Believing he was watching Gold Coast children who were probably Fante, in the Cape Coast, Ghana, area learn to swim, he wrote that parents tie their children to boards and throw them into the water. Other Europeans provided similar descriptions. However, most Africans learned to swim when they were about sixteen months old, and with more positive reinforcement; such lessons would have resulted in many drowned children.
Later accounts are unambiguous. For instance, in 1834, while at Accra, Ghana, James Alexander wrote; From the beach, meanwhile, might be seen boys swimming into the sea, with light boards under their stomachs. They waited for a surf; and came rolling like a cloud on top of it.
There are also accounts of Africans bodysurfing. In 1887, an English traveler watched an African man named Sua, at home in his element, dancing up and down and doing fancy performances with the rollers, as if he had lived since his infancy as much in the water as on dry land. As a wave approached, he turns his face to the shore, and rising onto the top of it he strikes out vigorously with it towards land, and is carried dashing in at a tremendous speed after the same manner, as the [surf-canoes] beach themselves.
Fishermen often surfed their six-foot-long paddleboards and surf-canoes that weighed about fifteen pounds. Accounts describe both from the Cape Verde Islands, Ivory Coast, Congo-Angola, and Cameroon, with the Kru canoes of Liberia particularly heavily documented. In 1861, Thomas Hutchinson observed Batanga fishermen from southern Cameroon riding surf-canoes no more than six feet in length, fourteen to sixteen inches in width, and from four to six inches
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Mami Wata; Foreword by Selema Masekela
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Mami Wata
- 2021, 320 Seiten, 200 Abbildungen, Masse: 21,9 x 28,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Ten Speed Press
- ISBN-10: 1984860402
- ISBN-13: 9781984860408
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.06.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
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