The Rich Legacy of Kipura: Blades of Kongo and Knife Defense
The Pembe [ Tusk Sword, inspired by elephant tusk ] and Ngombe Knife of Kongo's Kipura warriors today Title: The Rich Legacy of Kipura: Blades of Kongo and Knife Defense What happened to Capoeira? Where did its legendary warriors and especially their much feared [ even into the 1980's in Brazil ] skilled knife fighters go? Truth is, those skills never belonged to "Capoeira", a misnomer created in 1712 by Raphael Bluteau [ a racist White Catholic priest who disliked both Alkebulans miscalled Africans and their nonCatholic faith ] as he accidentally mispronounced the true name of the art...Kipura...via his Portuguese accent. If you mispronounce Kipura using Portuguese pronounciation? You get a word sounding something like "Capoeira". That's what Raphael Bluteau did. So we have to go back to Kongo and its Kipura to find the source and the skills that these same warriors displayed in Brazil and all over the world. In the heart of Alkebulan, a land once er...