By Atia Azohnwi
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| Dodging Sports Game Made Digital |
A team of
dedicated young Cameroonians grouped under the World Spark Your Talents have
taken One of Africa’s most popular
sports, known affectionately as ‘dodging’ to the next level. Dodging has been
made digital and plans are far afoot to professionalise and brand the sport.
Initiators of
the digital platform have already begun lobbying to ensure the game is given a
place in local, national and international competitions across Africa and the
World. Dodging is an African indigenous sport from time immemorial.
It is said to be
very popular in regions like Central and West Africa with a peculiar case of
Cameroon where it is often played by girls in schools and in the local
communities. Boys however often feature
in the sport but are not dominant.
“Over the years,
the sport, though full of energy, has been relegated and abandoned,” a team of
young Information Technology, IT experts, headed by King David Fontawah Tse,
said in a statement.
Dodging Sports $
Games (DSG), they say, is an organisation that is aimed at rebranding and
presenting this sport to the present generation.
“From random
sampling, the energy involved coupled with the excitement generated, we believe
it should be an inclusive sport. Given the fact that a lot of physical display
of tactics, strength and smartness can be employed, we encourage males to
participate and bring out the energy of this sport,” added promoters of the
game.
“This is aimed
at professionalising this sport and also providing a platform where the mobile
community can be engaged through the dodging game application,” they also said.
DSG, the IT
experts stated further, is committed to creating dodging clubs locally and
internationally. “We are at the level of mobilising communities and
personalities to create teams which shall participate in different competitions
across national and international territories. We are also working to see that
dodging is played as a professional sport globally in club and world
tournaments” they said.
With respect to
Cameroon, they have engaged a process of making the sport inclusive in the
school curricula across all the educational levels and sectors ranging from
primary schools to universities.
“We are also
creating an enabling strategy which can get this sport included in FENASCO
game, regional and national competitions. It will be our pleasure to engage our
African communities to actively participate in bringing this vision alive by
adopting this sport,” they said.
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| Professional Dodging Sports Team |
They added:
“Dodging has the ability to compete with other games, especially with the
energy and tension it builds during the process. Dodging is the only indigenous
African sport that has the capacity to be played in an open field like a
stadium of 100, 000+ spectators and we are working towards making it a reality.
It is going to be a collective effort in projecting our home sports world wide.
We are calling on the general public to support in whatever way possible to
give this dream a life by actively engaging in all the activities that will be
set in place”.
“…our objective
is to reintroduce and rebrand our own games which tell our stories and
represent our collective identity. This game will help maintain a historical
connection between the older, younger and future generations,” they said of the
dodging game.
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| Dodging |
They add that: “In achieving this, we have developed a game which
will run from several versions till the maximum satisfaction is met. This game
is branded “World Dodging Sport” (WDS). It is a game we seek to communicate the emotions of the
local street players to the entire world. Taking into consideration that this
present generation have drifted from what use to be a form community and
youthful entertainments by embracing the glitz that comes with internet and
technology. This sport is played over Africa but presently the percentage and
euphoria surrounding this game is lost. So our objective is to reintroduce and
rebrand our own games which tell our stories and represent our collective
identity. This game will help maintain a historical connection between the
older, younger and future generations.”
The dodging sport game can be accessed through: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sdkgames.worlddogingsport
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| Digital Dodging Game |
