West Africa’s Ivory Coast isn’t exactly a popular surfing destination. But there are good waves there. Just ask Vans teamriders Alex Knost and Lee Ann Curren, who joined Michael February on his second ...

Waxing down his board at the beach where he grew up, Souleymane Sidibe is determined to show the judges in Ivory Coast's first surfing competition that he's a future champion.

Hadi Beydoun never expected to become a surf entrepreneur. Like most people growing up in the Ivory Coast, he'd never even caught a wave on its 590 kilometres of coastline. But in 2011 during a brief ...

Eric Kouakou, a surfboard shaper at West Factory, shapes surfboards inside his workshop in Abidjan. Photo / Issouf Sanogo, AFP Waxing down his board at the beach where he grew up, Souleymane Sidibe is ...

The 30-year-old athlete has created an NGO to open up access to the sport and started his own Souley Surf School, a new addition to the handful of surf clubs that have set up since 2017. Among the ...