“My earliest memory of dancing,” Marcelino Sambé says, “is of being at a community centre for children from troubled families, in Alto da Loba, on the outskirts of Lisbon, where I was born.” We are ...

Fast forward 11 years later and Sambe, now 24, has her sights set on competing in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, under the guidance of her coach, Rhonda Harper. After Harper recruited Sambe to compete in a ...

Photojournalist Zohra Bensemra met Sambe, who is inspiring girls to take to the waves in Dakar, and has documented her family and surfing life Khadjou Sambe checks a surfboard as she talks to her ...

Khadjou Sambe, Senegal's first female professional surfer, trains near her home in the district of Ngor - the westernmost point of the African continent. "I would always see people surfing and I'd say ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Never shy of tackling complex stories, Cathy Marston has attempted to tell the life and tragically short career ...

DAKAR – Growing up in the coastal capital of Dakar, Khadjou Sambe never saw a Black woman surfing the Atlantic swells. As Senegal’s first female professional surfer, Sambe is now inspiring the next ...

‘When I did my first shows, people would ask me “Why do you smile so much?”,’ Marcelino Sambé, the Royal Ballet’s newest principal, reveals with a grin. ‘I’d explain I never felt like I had to come on ...

Senegal's first female professional suffer Khadjou Sambe, 25 (Image: Reuters/Zohra Bensemra) Growing up in the coastal capital of Dakar, Khadjou Sambe, 25, never saw a Black woman surfing the Atlantic ...

Was this made in a studio or beamed in from a jungle on some faraway planet? Perhaps a little of both--Jack Wyllie's saxophone does often find some alien- sounding contexts, as often shown by the ...

"I would always see people surfing and I'd say to myself: 'But where are the girls who surf?'" says the 25-year-old. "I thought: 'Why don't I go surfing, represent my country, represent Africa, ...