do some Africans still know how to make their swords and fight with them like the Europeans & Asians do?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln94E9AGYTc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFiIDl_mt2c


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S06RVQs7Rw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9PBLhaYodY

i know about Zulu stick fighting & Donga any others?

The fact is that we have lost all our cultural haritage

as if Europeans and Asians still do. these are just a handful of people into this "hobby"...... pls OP dont believe the hype!

MRbrownJAY: as if Europeans and Asians still do. these are just a handful of people into this "hobby"...... pls OP dont believe the hype!

the fact thats it's still alive says something. this stuff is no different from boxing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DvmVFd5Jb8

TerryCarr:
the fact thats it's still alive says something. this stuff is no different from boxing

how can you compare kendo with boxing?! when was the last time you heard/saw the world championship of kendo?
now yes, there are a bunch of people into kendo, and bunch more into fencing, but thats because fencing is still an olympic sport.
there are many people who still practice stick fighting, or sword dances....... and just because it is not practiced in the west, does not mean it is extent.

Arabs still do sword dances, touareg still have sword dance, Sudanese also have sword dances, the Cameroon still have kwem sword dance, Zimbabwean have the Jerusema/Mbenede dance, .... then there is Egyptian Tahtib stick fighting, Ethiopian Donga/saginay stick fighting, South African Nguni stick fight, and also Mali, Cameroon etc

no different than Kendo to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V40XzankIFU

MRbrownJAY:

how can you compare kendo with boxing?! when was the last time you heard/saw the world championship of kendo?
now yes, there are a bunch of people into kendo, and bunch more into fencing, but thats because fencing is still an olympic sport.
there are many people who still practice stick fighting, or sword dances....... and just because it is not practiced in the west, does not mean it is extent.

Arabs still do sword dances, touareg still have sword dance, Sudanese also have sword dances, the Cameroon still have kwem sword dance, Zimbabwean have the Jerusema/Mbenede dance, .... then there is Egyptian Tahtib stick fighting, Ethiopian Donga/saginay stick fighting, South African Nguni stick fight, and also Mali, Cameroon etc

no different than Kendo to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V40XzankIFU

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Kendo_Championship

i already said Nguni stick fighting, & Donga. plus Arabs/north Africa does not count

may i ask why north Africans dont count? are they less Africans than us?!

MRbrownJAY: may i ask why north Africans dont count? are they less Africans than us?!

no but a lot of them don't consider themselves Africans & a lot of black Africans seem to have an inferiority complex about they culture so i will like to keep this a "black" thread

TerryCarr: no but a lot of them don't consider themselves Africans & a lot of black Africans seem to have an inferiority complex about they culture so i will like to keep this a "black" thread

i understand but they are still considered Africans, whether they like it or not.

Africans have their own forms of unarmed and armed combatives. Visit Africawrites' site for example. The Tuareg "dance" you note, for example, is a part of an actual sword fighting system, just to name one.