http://www.metafilter.com/tags/mukumbusu Posts tagged with 'mukumbusu' at MetaFilter. Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:35:15 -0800 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:35:15 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/78247/Fighting%2Dboys%2Dstrong%2Dmen%2Dand%2Dgorillas At nightfall youth gangs transform the streets of Kinshasa's townships into arenas of the fight. Although many of these boys and young men are trained in foreign fighting styles such as judo, jujitsu and karate, in the public clashes between the fighting groups, these boys and young men perform <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOsDNLFn0gI">mukumbusu</a>. This fighting style, inspired and based on the gorilla, was invented during the last decade of colonialism, and is an original mixture of a traditional Mongo wrestling practice, <a href="http://pipersystem.com/blog/archives/23">libanda</a>, and Asian and Western fighting practices. An essay from <a href="http://www.eupjournals.com/doi/abs/10.3366/afr.2007.77.2.250">Edinburgh University's Center of African Studies</a> (PDF - or <a href="http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-31323394_ITM">accessmylibrary </a>link) More on race and <a href="http://pipersystem.com/blog/archives/13">African martial arts </a> and Africa, America, <a href="http://pipersystem.com/blog/archives/30">Identity </a>and African martial arts (and plenty of other stuff) from Lloyd De Jongh. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.78247 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:35:15 -0800 africa identity Kinshasa LloydDeJongh martialarts masculinity mukumbusu socialchaos youth Smedleyman