From Bruce Lee craze to regional hub: how China’s kung fu captured Ivory Coast

Meite Siaka wears many hats. By day, he is a senior tax official, a lecturer at the National School of Administration and deputy mayor of Kani in northern Ivory Coast. But outside government, he serves as the founding president of the Ivorian Federation of Chinese Martial Arts (FIAMC), a group he established in 2008. He also works as a master and instructor, running several martial arts clubs. Now he is a central figure in standardising the practice of kung fu, a Chinese martial art, and...

By Jevans Nyabiage