Magic Athletes - DRCONGO
Sport in DRC
Makasi Tskiwa, 46, welll known as Big Papa T, started wrestling 10 years ago, now he lives in England and visits Kinshasa for the first time after few years, at the Martyrs Stadium, Kinsahsa, Tuesday, Aug.1, 2006 Big Papa T left DRC ovbiously his life was threatened by Mobutu. He has been training the personnal guard of Mobutu for years. Now he has his own wrestling club in Haringey and goes back to university to study criminology. The main specificity of wrestling in Republic of Congo and in RDC is fetish wrestling (voudou like), which mixes magic traditions, believes and objects and sport discipline. Photo by Benedicte Kurzen
