ABUJA, Nigeria — The first strikes in Dambe are thrown before the boxers even leave their house. Fighters don charms and amulets, dye their fist or even score their arm with a razor, inserting ...
In the early summer of 2002, Abubakar Usman made his debut as a Dambe fighter in Kebbi, a state in northwest Nigeria. Usman, who was 15 at the time, had been surreptitiously learning the sport’s rules ...
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In Kano, Nigeria, fighters enter the brutal world of Dambe with one hand wrapped tightly into a weapon known as the spear.
Abuja, Nigeria – Just off the motorway that links the Italian stone mansions of the Nigerian capital’s pricey Minister’s Hill neighbourhood to the settlements of corrugated-tin roof shacks on the ...
Fighters don charms and amulets, dye their fist or even score their arm with a razor, inserting traditional medicine before it scars over -- all guaranteed to protect them in the ring or deliver a ...
Dambe fighters during an amateur match in the Dei-Dei neighbourhood in Abuja, on June 27, 2025. Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP. The first strikes in Dambe are thrown before the boxers even leave ...
Abuja: The first strikes in Dambe are thrown before the boxers even leave their house. Fighters don charms and amulets, dye their fist or even score their arm with a razor, inserting traditional ...
Pakistan, June 30 -- The first strikes in Dambe are thrown before the boxers even leave their house. Fighters don charms and amulets, dye their fist or even score their arm with a razor, inserting ...
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