Kevin Dawson, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Merced “Surfing, Surf-Canoeing, and the Atlantic Slave Trade”
6275 Bunche HallAtlantic Africa—the region extending from Senegal to Angola—has few natural harbors, compelling Africans to cross through surf to reach fisheries and coastal shipping lanes. Sources suggest that one thousand years ago Africans independently developed surfing to understand how to design and surf waves ashore in surf-canoes loaded with fish cargo. Today, Atlantic Africans remain the only people […]
