Surfing Safari

Surfing, as we all know, originated in Hawaii, except that a team of pro surfers made a film a few years back about a small number of black surfers on the island of Sao Tome off the coast of Nigeria. Surfing was an old village tradition. The villagers had never seen western surfboards, but they paddled out on their own simple boards with American pros like Holly Beck of Redondo Beach and kept up well. I suppose it's no surprise that surfing has been invented twice. (The film is called THE LOST WAVE.)