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Hello, I’m kohei and I’m going to talk about Stick Fighting. This stick fight seems to be one of the fiercest competitions in Africa and, may be, all over the world, but this event is a kind of scramble for possession of a girl. When their harvest comes to the end, people greet a period of courtship. During the period, they spend days by the river, and paint designs on their bodies. According to the website, the next stage of their courtship tradition is not so peaceful.

When their bodies are painted and men and women have started courting each other, the other side of their courtship starts. Once a week, men from different villages gather. Sometimes, they walk thirty miles to meet each other to perform the wild sport. The stick fight is fought with long, straight poles of about 1.8 meters long made of very hard wood, and men perform these fight to prove their manhood. Some people fight to settle personal revenges, but most importantly, to win wives. The rule of this competition is very simple; You cannot kill your opponent. The winner of the fighting is carried toward girls waiting on a platform, and one of the girls accepts the man as her husband.