Hidden Sport: Dambe boxing
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Kim Tserkezie faces up to her lifelong dislike of combat sports by exploring Dambe boxing, a Nigerian sport with a history that is said to go back as far as the 10th Century. Kim speaks with promoters and fighters from the African Warriors Fighting Championship, as well as their family members, to find out why Dambe boxing is so important to the Hausa community and whether it can one day become one of the world’s global combat sports.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nasserara State, Nigeria. |
| 0:09.0 | Crows arrive as the latest Dambi boxing camp in Higgs Place. |
| 0:14.0 | I went to the Aasai in Nipoli to Kiva, Alinbi. |
| 0:19.0 | Dambi gives me joy. |
| 0:22.0 | Whenever I win a fight and see the celebrations and happiness around, |
| 0:27.0 | I feel very proud of myself. |
| 0:31.0 | You're listening to Hidden Sport on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:44.0 | My name is Kim Zikersi and I might just be the least sporty person you could meet. |
| 0:51.0 | As a disabled person, I felt pressure right back from my childhood to play sport. |
| 0:57.0 | Like I need to prove I can be physically active to be successful. |
| 1:02.0 | Be the Paralympian. |
| 1:04.0 | I rarely watch sport or play it. |
| 1:08.0 | But whilst my relationship with sport may be a complicated one, |
| 1:12.0 | I do recognise how important it is to communities across the globe. |
| 1:17.0 | One of the bits I love most about Dambi is music. |
| 1:20.0 | What they're doing is just egging on the fight, |
| 1:22.0 | just speaking to something deep within them that gets them ready to fight. |
| 1:26.0 | Somebody, somebody, somebody! |
| 1:30.0 | In this series, I want to be taken out of my comfort zone. |
| 1:34.0 | So, Nasser is blood. Oh my God, it's... it's hot for. |
| 1:39.0 | But all the same. The end result is all my thoughts. |
| 1:42.0 | Commercial competitive sports haven't really drawn me in, |
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