An excellent article on female wrestlers:

"Wrestling is how we prove our womanhood,” she said, sitting outside her home in a forest clearing in Djibetene, a tiny village set among the paddy fields of southern Senegal’s Casamance region.

I’ve been fighting since I was this high,” she said, holding her hand up to her knee. “I’d take on the guys as well.” After a particularly bruising showdown with a group of boys, a cousin suggested going pro. “He said, ‘Come fight at the festival — there’ll be coaches; there’s even the Olympics these days."

Read the article here:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/monicamark/meet-the-badass-women-wrestlers-of-senegal?utm_content=buffere2c2c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer&utm_term=.yiRONO4ezV#.gcl0N05g1y