Surfer.com - Africans Surfed Long Before Bruce Brown Showed Up

University of California history professor Kevin Dawson knows a thing or two about the longstanding connection between African people and the ocean – he literally wrote the book on it, in fact, with “Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora”. So it should come as no surprise that when African surf brand Mami Wata set out to make a gorgeous 300-page tome exploring African surf culture (called “Afrosurf”, which you can and should preorder So it should come as no surprise that when African surf brand Mami Wata set out to make a gorgeous 300-page tome exploring African surf culture (called “Afrosurf”, which you can and should preorderhere), they tapped Dawson to shed some light on just how deep Africa’s surfing roots go.