In West Africa, Games, Sport and Tradition

The traditional culture of play and movement in West Africa offers obvious possibilities for an original “alternative” culture. But this culture, which in reality no longer exists in the primary sense of the word, is still too often observed in a selective and unverified manner, should not be overestimated ; still less should it be opposed in a critical way to the modern concept of sport and its administrators. It is more important to deduce from it, from the functional point of view, desirable patterns of human movement