Senegal is seeing a small but hopeful change on the coast of Dakar, where about 20 girls from the fishing village of Xataxely have joined a new Surf Academy. The rule is simple: if they want to surf, ...

Even today, with the 21 st century mainstream-ification of surfing, there are some regions in the world where the sport is still in a primordial stage of popularity and practice amongst the locals.

For generations, Seynabou Tall's ancestors have fished, dived and rowed off the coast of Dakar, where the 14-year-old, who quit school nearly four years ago, is now learning to surf. She and some 20 ...

There are two types of mariners in this world: Those who force their children into the family business and those who give them a choice, but implore them to do anything but. Something of a philosopher ...

Khadjou Sambe, Senegal's first female professional surfer, also a Lebou from Xataxely, is the vice president of the Dakar chapter of Black Girls Surf, which put on the four-month Surf Academy. The ...