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Meet Senegal’s First Female Professional Surfer, Who’s Inspiring Other Women To Ride The Waves
Coming from the Lebou community, Khadjou Sambe grew up in Dakar, and despite having direct access to the Atlantic and the country’s surf spots, she has never seen a single black woman surfing. Today, as Senegal’s first female professional…
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Hurley Announces Long-Term Partnership with Black Girls Surf
Hurley is proud to announce its new multi-year global partnership with Black Girls Surf, a Performance Training Program and organization that supports girls & women of color whose dreams and career goals are to compete in professional surfing. With locations in…
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Khadjou Sambe on Becoming Senegal’s First Professional Female Surfer
By the age of 13, Khadjou Sambe had fallen in love with surfing. But surfing is a male-dominated sport in her home country of Senegal, and it’s rare to find women riding the waves. It’s even rarer to see women of…
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This Organization Is Training Black Girls to Become Pro Surfers, 1 Wave at a Time
Rhonda Harper has been in Senegal since January. It was meant to be a short trip for Harper, the founder of Black Girls Surf, to do some filming with Khadjou Sambe, a Senegalese surfer whom she’s training for the Olympics…
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Surfing for “Something Positive”: Black Girls Surf and the Rising Tide of Equal Representation
Rhonda Harper was still new to the surfing scene in 1987 when, leaving the beach one evening in California’s historic Santa Cruz, she returned to her Nissan 300ZX to find the words “Go home n—–” scrawled across the car in…
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Black Girls Surf Organizes Protest From Their Boards
The protests that have swept the country and the world these last few weeks have largely happened in the streets. But last Friday, a group of demonstrators in Santa Monica decided to do things differently, heading into the ocean to…
