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AFROSURF: New Book Highlights Surf Culture in Africa
Picture a surfer. You probably imagine someone blonde and blue eyed—a classic Southern California type, The Beach Boys playing in the background. Maybe you think of Elvis and one of his many surf movies. Heck, you’re more apt to see Scooby Doo on a board than a person of color. Like many sports in the US, surfing has been actively non-inclusive—a stark reality that Selema Masekela came to understand as a teenager surfing in Southern California in the 1980s. “There were no other [Black] kids doing it,” Masekela says. “And the kids in my school were very much informative in making sure I knew that. Everything from ‘You people don’t swim,…