Boxing Athenas
N’Krumah Lawson Daku
Vues D’Afrique
Hardcover
90 pages
230 x 230 mm
2012
In the peripheries of large cities, it is combat theaters defying the ravages of time. These rooms, where one is educated, are distinguished from each other by belonging to a space-time: a territory and a history specific to each. Some are bearers of change. Combat sports are sports with a strong identity: Social identity and gender. The boxing is a sport where the elders are tutelary figures: former champions, coaches, trainers, the veteran is one who protects, who knows and transmits. Those who are dedicated to women’s boxing form early generations of competitors and champions. They and contribute to the acceptance of difference and the dune implementation of de facto equality. They and offer us unprecedented icons. Young women you will see are engaged in combat: on the Ring and the contemporary city. If this is the sport that brings them together is (intentionally or incidentally) denial of social space allocated to them between them. We learn to fight for themselves and for others. In solidarity, they bring a collegiate touch to this individual discipline. Modern carriers, female boxers to conquer the infinite space defined by the ring: the story. Between tradition and permanent revolution, women play every moment their destiny in the ring. The Olympics will open for the first time women’s boxing in 2012. In Greek mythology, Athena is – among others – the goddess of wisdom, war and guardian of the city.
About the Artist
N’Krumah Lawson Daku was born in Togo in 1974, his family arrived in France in 1979 as political refugees. His eye remains strongly marked by the first films of his childhood: Beauty and the Beast by Jean Cocteau, La Beauté du Diable by René Clair, La Planète Sauvage by René Laloux and Roland Topor. The classics of literature, the black series of cinema, the traditional tales of his childhood remain deeply rooted in him.
About the Publisher
Vues D’Afrique is an annual event featuring African films.
