Undeterred by the postponement of the Olympic Games, Khadjou Sambe, Senegal’s first professional surfer – male or female, trains when weather conditions allow, from her home in Ngor — a district mainly inhabited by the “lebous” ethnic group which she describes as “dolphins” or “mermaids” who, unlike other Senegalese, know how to swim dive and surf.
The aspiring-Olympian tries to explain her passion for the sport of surfing, “It’s like the sea is everything for me because I can say that the sea is my second family, the waves are…
