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Dembe may refer to: * Dembe (sport): a form of traditional Hausa boxing * Dembe (DRC), a town in the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo * Dembe (Poland), a town in Poland * Dembe (Eritrea), a town in Eritrea * Dembe, Huambo, a town in Provincia do Huambo, Angola * Dembe, Bie, a town in Provincia do Bie, Angola * Dembe (Uganda), a town in Busoga Province, Uganda * Dembe (Chad), a town in Prefecture du Ouaddai, Chad * Dembe (Central African Republic), a town in the Central African Republic * Dembe, Sulawesi, a town in Propinsi Sulawesi Utara, Indonesia {{Disambig ...
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Dembe (sport)
Dambe is a martial art of the Hausa people from Nigeria. Competitors in a typical match aim to subdue each other into total submission mostly within three rounds. It often results in serious bodily injury. Boxers are called by the Hausa word "daæmaænga". The tradition is dominated by Hausa fisherman and butcher caste groups, and over the last century evolved from clans of these professions traveling to farm villages at harvest time, integrating a fighting challenge by the outsiders into local harvest festival entertainment. It was also traditionally practiced as a way for men to get ready for war, and many of the techniques and terminology allude to warfare. Today, companies of boxers travel performing outdoor matches accompanied by ceremony and drums, drumming, throughout the traditional Hausa homelands of northern Nigeria, southern Niger and southwestern Chad The sport has received mainstream attention from Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development as its min ...
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