tk, // v ,J—1—r: u \rI 8t1'q .1, c v+ 01 I \I ‘-"?),.\ cj //I \10-h1/4 \cr 1t t ViCY I (-) '+ (9\0-cton, /0 c-I'l , c ,4— 0 _, ,;,?-c t / CONTRIBUTORS PAGE (i) c)\1c7i c / I 0 1 -- \?-'4 v/cI\ 'c I 7/ 'ci \o-h )\( •°;.r c / ,J \o-tli0\ / , do ,s2,i / , (..), +,D\ j+ Ci CONTRIBUTORS 7,s;? c7,. CI ,, 1--1- 0\ / r.I— . CD- 0 \ si°- 1_c ce-K.0 i4C-)to \1 ‘- -8? ,q , °GOA1SSUL N°2 DiannaGames Illustration: isCEO of business consultancy Africa@Wor k and 0/ !-%k \çç Michael Tymbios a fellow of the South African Centre for Dynamic cc c, -r [:v I- Markets at the Gordon Institute of Business J\e-,41o (, Science.Based in Johannesburg, she has written Rumbi Katedza and spoken extensively about the continent's v 1 0 ti, k%,,/ c is a leadingZimbabwean filmmaker. p-ol it ica I economy. r,„ -r (, writer and arts consultant,whose ‘. 0 - C t:-AN production company, Mai Jai Films. o Justin Polkey 4 is producing anew generation of grew up inCape Town. South Africa. Zimbabwean ilms and filmmakers_ andnow works all over the world.He Follow her on Twitter@Rum biKatedza has photographedmany well-known andVimeo https://vimeo.com/ figures, including Nelson Mandela. maijai films. Sindiso Marianne Lentz aka 'MT'. is aBulawayo born. is aCopenhagen-based writer widely self-developed graphic artist. published in the Danish press_She contemporary illustrator. activist, holds anMA in Film and Media Studies street-artist and graphic designer. from the University ofCopenhagen and Humboldt-Universitat in Berlin. Michael Schmidt is an investigative journalist, NiyiAderibigbe researcher and non-fiction author is a Lagos-based writerwho focuses based in Johannesburg. South on business in Africa and is passionate Africa_ Having worked across the about sustainable development.She continent, he says: -Thedynamism says she is Yoruba first. then a that permeates Africa has givenme a Nigerian, her roots driving her quest frontiersman's can-do attitude. a sense for knowledge and success while that perseverance shifts possibilities.- maintaining her integrity. Daniel Rathbone Engaging Farai Mutsaka is a recent graduate of the University architecture has written aboutZimbabwean of Brighton and will soon begin his 4 economics. society and politics for postgraduate studies at the School of of place 15 years.He is currently a freelance Oriental and African Studies. correspondent for international media.An alumnus of the Cambridge AntoineTempe University Wolfson College Press Currently living and working in Dakar, 0 Fellowship, Faraiwas the Senegal.The French-American -sings& agk recipient of the ZimrightsHuman photographer specialises in Senegal's ancient Rights Journalist of the YearAward documenting African contemporary tradition in the in 2012. cultural scenes through portraiture Petterik Wiggers and photojournalism. modern arena has been working as a photographer Palesa Mazamisa andcameraman in Africa for over 20 is a writer, playwright. and essayist years.Based inAddis Ababa, he travels based in Johannesburg. South Africa. all over Africa for his picture stories. A satirist at heart, she is a keen observer of the absurdity of life in MercedesSayagues general_ and politics in particular. is a journalist. After four years in Mozambique. shemoved back to Pretor la in South Africa last year and Rose Skelton David Herbling still misses the IndianOcean. She has lived in Senegal for12 years. writing for British is aKenyan journalist currently on an Alfred Friendly works across Africa as a media trainer media on the arts and sports across West Africa. fellowship at Chicago Tribune.He was educated in French and Portuguese-speaking She says: -Africa has allowedme to discover what at Kenyatta University in Nairobi and worked at countries. it feels like to posses a profound sense of belonging. Business Daily in Kenya. -Africa is not the next big It has also allowedme to know what it feels like thing. Africa is the big thing:* he says. to be a total foreigner. to not belong at all.And sometimes. all of this at thesame time. which brings a terrificsense of creative freedom." 0 USD 10 ZAR 120 NGN 1,950 GHS 40 0 KES 950 GBP 6.30 r%3 OGOJIII 06/2016 P 3 )Q1) C,(9) Vera WRESTLINGEGON MY Words: Rose Skelton Photography: Antoine Tempe In Senegal, an ancient tradition hasbecome anew sport - and a livelihood a):LiE. v-1 (2) C-11(c) D\---11 (2) ,c)(3) V1.1 (0) , 1E V_-' (.0) vlf• (3) (29 ,C-11 to) \Si(3) ,'(?) (3Vi(0) ‘'C c3 v:11 (2) „t CIs V-1(2) ,C:1 (c) (3) (2) ,(c) (3 (2) \---7 ic ,' \c-1 1 (2)O s ( CULTURE 1 (2)Oc3 ( THEROAD THROUGH PALMERIN-DIAKHANOR He will also benamed Le Rai de l'Arene, the King of the Opening page: is red dirt. rutted front the wheels of the old buses Arena, and here in Senegal, thatmeans everything. Young wro:itlerc. from 1 (2) ( Palmarin Diakhanor, O (3 which rattle along it taking villagers elsewhere, or a village in the bringing them back again. It winds south, following the Sine-Saloum region, 1 (2) ( peninsula which juts out from Senegal's Atlantic shore, In West Africa. traditional wrestling has been practised practise on the beach heading down towards Differ, a small fishing village by different ethnic groups. from Mauritania in the north Oc3 Loft; 1 (2) ( which marks the end of the road. At night, the buses down to Nigeria in the south, each group producing Clockwise from top slop and t he village.ISO kilometres from the bustle its own particular style. The sport, a show of strength left: Ibrahima Faye, O 3) of the capital Dakar, sinks into a darkness and silence and masculinity, was largely unregulated until the Michel Henri Sarr, usually punctuated only by the bark of feral dogs 1960sWhen a formalised form of "African wrestling'. Mamadou Sarr and (2) ( and the occasional light bulb strungup on the side of developed, the largest tournaments taking place in Jerome Hiram° Diouf O 3) someone's concrete house. Niamey, the capital of Niger, and Dakar. But it is in 1 (?) ( But on thisweekend in May, that changes. Over the Senegal that wrestling has evolved from a rural pastime villages of Senegal's delta region. where the rivers Sine to an urban business. Serer people - the ethnic group Oc3 and Saloum come together in a thousand tiny islands. that inhabits the waterways and salt fiats of central 1(so ( lagoons, salt flatsand mangrove creeks. is the buzz of coastal Senegal - introduced their sport to Dakar when female voices. Highly amplified. the repetitive melody they sold their produce in the capital, The Lehou. the O (3 and beat of their song soars high above the village. original inhabitants of Dakar. quickly recognised the 1 (2) ( which could not possibly sleep. even if it wanted to. financial opportunities in it and the Serer found that Oc3 A full orchestra of sabar drumsmakes its mark on the during their time off from planting millet and rice back night ai r, the rhythm bold and sharp, punctuated by home, they could earn money and livestock from their 1 (2) ( dramatic pauses and frenetic catch-ups,Ivhich sound beloved pastime.And so Senegal saw the start of t he O (3 like gunfire in this normally peaceful pan of the world. sport's rise in popularity, and the birth of the wrestling 1 (2) ( Tonight. one part of the village is illuminated. The manager and promoter. village square - a patch of sand betweensome homes But it was sports promoter and out-of-the-box O 3) and a couple of palm trees - is lit up with a string of thinker Gaston Mbengue who in the 1990ssaw (2) ( bulbs. Beneath them is a show that people front this an opportunity to makeSenegalese wrestling a O (3) village. and from the next. and from those a dozen miles phenomenon. Introducing elements of judo and boxing away. havecome to see. - and most controversially. bare-knuckle punching 1 (2) ( This is a traditional Serer wrestling tournament. - wrestling quicklybecame the country's most loved O 3) Youngwomen in colourful outfits of embroidered sport. more adored even than football. Rather than the 1 (2) ( jacquard cloth and elaborately-twisted head scarves all-night tournaments set in Serer village squares where sit on long wooden benches to one side of the square. dozens of wrestlers practised their traditional moves, O (3) babies strapped to their backs with cloths that match bare-knuckle wrestling pitted two equally-matched 1 (2) ( their mothers' bonbons, the babies fast asleep despite wrestlers against each other in a stadium. Following the tremendous cacophony of music, drums and Oc3 cheering, Beside the sabar orchestra, two women, VV 1 (2) ( older and dignified, sing into hand-held microphones, O 3) bestowing blessings in Arabic upon the village, upon THETRADITIONAL WRESTLERS the sponsors of this event and upon the participants. 1 (2) ( The traditional wrestlers of this river delta have OF THISRIVER DELTA HAVE RIDDEN O (3 riddenmopeds and piled into buses and paddled 1 (9) ( canoes to reach Palmerin-Diakhanor for the second MOPEDSAND PILED INTOBUSES to last wrestling tournament of the season. Under the ANDPADDLED CANOES TO REACH O 3) light of the bare bulbs they strut and they run and they 1 (2) ( douse themselves in magical herbal potions. which THISWRESTLING TOURNAMENT Oc3 swim with verses of the Koran written on tiny scraps of white paper, The men, their heads elaborately shaved a long build-up of music, posturing and fanfare, one 1 (2) ( and their bodies festooned with leather amulets, throw would knock the other down in a matter ofminutes, O (3) chicken eggs into the sandy arena for good luck, then sometimes seconds.