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Xam Sa Cossan, 'Know your Heritage': Senegalese Wrestling and the 'Rediscovery' of Ethnicity'
"On my mother's side I'm Diola. That's why I'm a good wrestler. Well, actually my family is Socé from Sédhiou, in Casamance. Before my next fight, I want to go to Casamance to solicit prayers from the marabouts there." – Omar, wrestler, Pikine, Dakar
Ethnicity in the City
It came as something of a surprise to me when Omar, an aspiring wrestler whom I had come to know during my fieldwork, revealed to me his Casamançais ancestry. Of course, there was nothing really surprising about the fact itself – Dakar's ever-expanding suburban areas are populated by people who have moved to the capital from all over Senegal as part of an ongoing rural exodus since the mid-20th century: Diola and Mandinka from Casamance, Peulh from the Senegal river valley, Sereer from the Saloum delta, and Wolof from the country's interior, to name just some of the groups that make up Dakar's complex ethnic landscape. What was surprising to me was that Omar himself brought up the topic. Among young Dakarois, ethnicity often appears to be a somewhat vague category that they rarely mention; one which is less central to urban identity than, say, religious affiliation or place of residence. In other words, the distri
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1. Introduction
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Senegalese wrestling
Type of folk wrestling
Mame Balla vs. Pape Mor Lô, Paris-Bercy, 2013 | |
| Focus | Wrestling |
|---|---|
| Olympic sport | No |
Senegalese wrestling (Njom in Serer, Lutte sénégalaise or simply Lutte avec frappe in French, Làmb in Wolof, Siɲɛta in Bambara) is a type of folk wrestling traditionally performed by several African tribes, from the Wolofs of West Africa to the Nuer and Dinka of South Sudan. and now a national sport in Senegal and parts of The Gambia,[1] and is part of a larger West African form of traditional wrestling (fr. Lutte Traditionnelle).[2] The Senegalese form traditionally allows blows with the hands (frappe), the only one of the West African traditions to do so. As a larger confederation and championship around Lutte Traditionnelle has developed since the 1990s, Senegalese fighters now practice both forms, called officially Lutte Traditionnelle sans frappe (for the international version) and Lutte Traditionnelle avec frappe for the striking version.[3]
History
[edit]It takes its root from the wrestling tradition of the Wolof – formally a preparatory exercise for war among the warrior classes depending on the technique.[4][5] In Wolof tradition, wrestling