How surfing is challenging tradition in a Ghanaian town - BBC Sport

One man convinced parents to let their daughters surf. Now they are challenging and changing social stereotypes in rural Ghana.

1 day agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingBy Mike HensonBBC SportImage source, Ben LalandeSign up for notifications to the latest Insight features via the BBC Sport app and find the most recent in the series here.

It started with a magazine cutting.

Appearing in Surfer, the article was titled 'Africa - Home of Surfing?' and illustrated with a heavy-handed caricature of a tribesman dragging a board out of the surf.

Written in the 1960s and forwarded to Ben Lalande by colleague Sarah Hughen over Instagram nearly 60 years later, it set the filmmakers thinking.

A few months later in Busua, a small Ghanaian fishing town, they focused their camera on some surfers bobbing in the Atlantic and the blue morning light.

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