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You do know that there were many colonizers in Africa right? And those individuals had folk traditions involving fighting, yes they did...Zulu stick fighting, Forms of boxing. We know they existed because we see the forms depicted. No, we cannot teach an antiquated form of Egyptian, or African boxing...That is something that gets misappropriated in a big way.
But these forms of fighting were recorded. Boxing is depicted in Egyptian reliefs and there are accounts of it in the Middle Kingdom writings of soldgers coming back from wars against the Nubian empires. This is common knowledge.
Your contention that the Brits brought fist fighting to Nigeria is laughable. And your chauvanism about Britian is amusing. Your also talking about a much later period of history. Do you think all these places that the colonial empire went, did not have things? Are you aware of all the Indian Martial Arts traditions? some of which can actually be taught today? Or did the good ole Brits bring combat to those savages as well?
I do you a favor, whether you are too ****** to realize it, or not, when I assume your perspective is born of a rash lack of understanding... God help you if it is not.
You fly in here and make these assertions lol. Africa is a complex tribal entity...Tribal iden****** that all had fighting traditions because they fought with each other. Those fighting forms may have been institutionalized in a different way, and they may not be able to be taught as an art anymore, because the specific knowledge has not been passed down, and this is where the casuals make the error... It does not mean they did not exist and that their history is not known.
But these forms of fighting were recorded. Boxing is depicted in Egyptian reliefs and there are accounts of it in the Middle Kingdom writings of soldgers coming back from wars against the Nubian empires. This is common knowledge.
Your contention that the Brits brought fist fighting to Nigeria is laughable. And your chauvanism about Britian is amusing. Your also talking about a much later period of history. Do you think all these places that the colonial empire went, did not have things? Are you aware of all the Indian Martial Arts traditions? some of which can actually be taught today? Or did the good ole Brits bring combat to those savages as well?
I do you a favor, whether you are too ****** to realize it, or not, when I assume your perspective is born of a rash lack of understanding... God help you if it is not.
You fly in here and make these assertions lol. Africa is a complex tribal entity...Tribal iden****** that all had fighting traditions because they fought with each other. Those fighting forms may have been institutionalized in a different way, and they may not be able to be taught as an art anymore, because the specific knowledge has not been passed down, and this is where the casuals make the error... It does not mean they did not exist and that their history is not known.
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