Did you see the movie Winnie Mandela?
You should!!! She was the best stick fighter in her district. She could beat all of the boys in an activity, I almost said sport, that girls were not supposed to participate in!
Compare that too the movie Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, stick fighting is not even mentioned anywhere in the entire movie. Not even in the part where Nelson was sent away from the village a child, to undergo MANHOOD TRAINING!!! Now wouldn't a cultural tradition like stick fighting, be included in a MANHOOD TRAINING PROGRAM? It is obviously intended to teach courage, and a fighting spirit, which Winnie Mandela had more than her fair share of!
Those two movies are the most powerful I've seen since The Spook Who Sat By The Door. Are you old enough to remember that one.