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Two books that will will blow your mind<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Afro Surf<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0She Surf<\/a>: The Rise of Female Surfing<\/em>\u00a0are two brilliant books to get you fired up about the bright and exciting future of waveriding. Published by South African surf brand Mami Wata,\u00a0Afro Surf<\/a><\/em>\u00a0is a beautifully decorated 300-page celebration of African surf culture across this vast and kaleidoscopic continent. Published by Gestalten,\u00a0She Surf<\/a><\/em>\u00a0is an equally majestic book written and curated by Lauren Hill, offering a rainbow spectrum of water-women. Both of these books showcase communities often ignored in the surf media, delivering a blast of fresh air to counter surfing\u2019s often white male dominance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With case studies across the convoluted coastlines of Morocco, Senegal, Cape Verde, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D\u2019Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Congo, South Africa, Mozambique, Somalia and beyond, Afro Surf<\/em> poses the question to an eclectic mix of waveriders, \u201cWhat does it mean to be an African surfer today?\u201d Meanwhile, She Surf<\/em> features a diverse set of twenty five surfers from India\u2019s Ishita Malaviya to Indonesia\u2019s Flora Christin Butarbutar to China\u2019s Monica Guo to showcase what it means to be a water-woman today. \u201cRight now, women are reclaiming our natural place in the global sport, art, and culture of surfing,\u201d writes Lauren Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The introduction to\u00a0Afro Surf<\/a><\/em>\u00a0is written by African American academic Kevin Dawson, discussing the long and often over-looked history of aquatic culture in West Africa. Here coastal communities have been experts in the wave rich surf zone on canoes and bellyboards for thousands of years. \u201cSurfing was a means of opening up economic opportunities,\u201d writes Dawson. \u201cIt allowed Africans to critically understand surf-zones so they could uniquely traverse them in surf-canoes, linking coastal communities to offshore fisheries and coastal shipping lanes.\u201d And, \u201csurfing was the intergenerational transmission of wisdom that transformed surf-zones into social and cultural places, where the youth holistically experienced the ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1640s a German working for the Dutch West India Company called Michael Hemmersam wrote the first account of African waveriding in what is now Ghana (over 100 years before Europeans first witnessed and documented Hawaiians riding waves). Today in Ghana there is a thriving modern surf culture, and Michael \u2018Ballack\u2019 Bentum is one of the best. In his interview, Ballack celebrates the work that Brett \u2018Mr Brights\u2019 Davies has done to raise the profile of West African surfing in the last ten years, raising funds for equipment and hosting surf contests. Davies\u2019 business partner is Ghanaian Sidiq Banda, who explains his passion for surfing as being \u201clike a first-love thing. It\u2019s like light-blue walls, and you\u2019re flying. That\u2019s when you get hooked, when you just need to keep going back because you\u2019re constantly dreaming about waves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a brilliant chapter critiquing Bruce Brown\u2019s 1966 film The Endless Summer<\/em>, Kunyalala Ndlovu notes that while Brown lamented the \u2018discovery\u2019 of \u201csurf that had never been ridden before\u201d Ghanaian Ga kids are playing in the waves on wooden boards as they have done for thousands of years. So \u201cwhen one pauses the moment the two outsiders walk down toward the water, you can see in the background, in soft focus, little boys playing on what appear to be flat pieces of wood in the water. They were in fact surfing: they just didn\u2019t have a name for it yet.\u201d It is very likely that riding prone on short, wooden, curved-nose boards, is 3,000 to 4,000 years old, and developed independently along the coastlines of Africa and around the Pacific and Indian Oceans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the many refreshing things about Afro Surf<\/em> is the way it bridges all levels of surfers, from beginners to professionals. For example, in Somalia surfing is used as therapy in conflict-scarred Mogadishu. While South African Cass Collier shares his story of becoming the first non-Hawaiian surfer of colour to hold a world title (for big wave surfing in 1999). He talks about learning to surf at the then whites-only beaches of Muizenberg, Cape Town, as an act of political defiance. \u201cI weathered through it,\u201d he says, \u201cbut a lot of my crew didn\u2019t want to carry on surfing because of that confrontational vibe.\u201d Now the enigmatic Michael February has become the poster-boy of African surfing. \u201cI love how the expressive nature of Africans translates to our music and surfing,\u201d writes February. \u201cThe (African) surfers I\u2019ve seen are so expressive, and it\u2019s often an extension of their expressiveness on land, whether it\u2019s through their music or dancing or whatever they create or do. We are very much influenced by where we are from.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the continent that widely venerates Mami Wata, the goddess of the sea, Afro Surf<\/em> challenges the old surfing stereotypes, illuminating new narratives that celebrate the power and positivity of African waveriding. It also addresses the importance of protecting the natural, economic and social resources related to African surf culture. Importantly, profits from sales of the book go to charities including surf therapy projects Waves for Change<\/em> and Surfers Not Street Children<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berber surfer Maryam El Gardoum, from Tamraght in Morocco, is featured in both Afro Surf<\/em> and She Surf<\/em>. Maryam recalls, \u201cThey called me Mohammed. Because I was surfing like a boy. I was really strong, I didn\u2019t let anyone put me down.\u201d But the driving narrative in She Surf<\/em> is to surf like a woman. Author and curator Lauren Hill is a brilliant longboarder, outstanding writer, mother and partner to Dave Rastovich (who Lauren describes as \u201ca full-on champion of women\u2019s surfing.\u201d) Lauren writes, \u201cSurfing culture has become more inclusive over the last decade, and thankfully we\u2019ve largely moved away from hyper-sexualization as the norm for representations of female surfers,\u201d although, \u201csurf media has really lagged on fully integrating women into the fold of men\u2019s media – it\u2019s still very rare to see a woman on the cover of a mainstream surfing magazine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She Surf<\/a><\/em>\u00a0begins with a fantastic opening section on Polynesian mythology and lore where women are celebrated as more adept waveriders than men. Lauren Hill continues, \u201cAs girls are given the opportunity and support to engage with the sport, and accessibility to boards and beaches increases, we will make up for lost decades in getting back to surfing\u2019s legacy of inclusivity. As we work to catch up – not to men\u2019s surfing – but to what our own minds, hearts, and bodies are capable of and long for in the water, we are witnessing the depth and diversity of a truly global women\u2019s surf culture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surfers featured in the book such as Kassia Meador and Easkey Britton have long poked fun at the stupidly of the bikini, designed by men, and the most unfunctional surfing apparel possible. Even before the birth of the bikini in 1946, She Surf<\/em> recounts that Agatha Christie wrote in the 1920s, \u201cThe second time I took the water, a catastrophe occurred. My handsome silk bathing dress, covering me from shoulder to ankle was more or less torn from me by the force of the waves. Almost nude, I made for my beach wrap.\u201d Now swim and surfwear designed by and for women is finally the norm, and the female-led surf industry is one of the many threads of the book, alongside environmentalism, art and performance, with section headings that sing out aloud: \u2018The Abundant Roots of Women Surfing\u2019, \u2018The Founding Mothers of Professional Surfing\u2019, \u2018Blue Crushing It\u2019, \u2018Making Design Matter\u2019 and \u2018Irreversible Bikini\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featuring a diverse set of profiles, representing surfing in all forms and feelings, from Mexico to Sri Lanka, Lauren notes how, \u201cRight now, women are reclaiming our natural place in the global sport, art, and culture of surfing.\u201d Seven times World Shortboard Champion Stephanie Gilmore, \u2018National Geographic Adventurer of the Year\u2019 Emi Koch, ocean activist Belinda Baggs, Brazilian longboarder Chloe Calmon, big wave champion Paige Alms, adaptive surfer Dani Burt, photographer Sarah Lee, and Bethany Hamilton, all provide inspiring chapters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lauren Hill concludes, \u201cThere are so many amazing water-women, there\u2019s no way we could fit them into one volume, or even ten. I wanted the book to make women\u2019s surfing really accessible for newbies to the idea, and also have plenty of detail and untold stories for those of us who have been craving to connect more deeply with the roots and legacy of our surfing culture. Across cultures and continents, as a traveling surfer\/writer, I found that many women interpret their relationship with the ocean as a call to action for engaging with social and environmental issues within their local community and ecology. So it was important to me that that be a major undercurrent of the book – the inherent activism and engagement. And so almost all of the women included in the book embody those principles in their own way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, I just wanted to create something beautiful that all kinds of water-women – and men, really – could look at, and see something of themselves in. To be reminded that surfing is theirs, too, and it always has been.\u201d\"Girl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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