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Chinese Kung Fu gains popularity in Ivory Coast, spreading across West Africa

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Chinese martial arts, inspired by films featuring figures like Bruce Lee, have gained significant traction among working-class youth in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. This cultural influence has spread across West Africa, offering a model of discipline and resistance. The Ivorian Federation of Chinese Martial Arts, founded in 2008, plays a key role in promoting these practices, with its president also serving as a tax official and educator. AI

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Chinese Kung Fu gains popularity in Ivory Coast, spreading across West Africa

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Jevans Nyabiage ·

    From Bruce Lee craze to regional hub: how China’s kung fu captured Ivory Coast

    Meite Siaka wears many hats. By day, he is a senior tax official, a lecturer at the National School of Administration and deputy mayor of Kani in northern Ivory Coast. But outside government, he serves as the founding president of the Ivorian Federation of Chinese Martial Arts (F…

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