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[armthearmour]

Hello, I love your blog and especially love the cross-cultural scope of your posts. I wanted to ask you if you knew anything about weapons and armor—especially swords—from Ivory Coast. I used to live there as a little kid, in the center of the country near Bouake, and wanted to know more about my second home. Thanks, and cheers!

I'm not all that personally familiar with the arms of Western Africa, so I asked some of my friends over at the Historical African Martial Arts Association (HAMAA) what they knew.

I was told that swords popular among people in neighboring countries are what would have been used in the Ivory Coast, namely Akrafena swords popular among the Ashanti,

and a variety of swords used by the Mandinka people from Mali (of which the Ivory Coast has a significant population.)

If you are interested in learning more, I suggest you head over to the HAMAA Facebook page I linked above.

[victoriansword]

HAMA Association

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Check out the Historical African Martial Arts Association for information on African weapons and martial arts. The blog has a number of interesting articles.

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[yaoi-vodka]

HEMA gets a lot of hype already because basically European descendants really like their reenactment type stuff already and all secretly want to own a broadsword-

but fyi if that isn’t your vibe and doesn’t feel like a revitalization of your own cultural roots or something you can really connect to,

there is also HAMA (Historical African Martial Arts) which does similar much needed work in investigating historical sources, artifacts, and contemporary African martial arts practices in order to better illuminate the traditions of the past and both reapply them to current practices and spread international cultural awareness.

They’re pretty dope and you should check them out.

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