I'd like to introduce you to Khadjou Sambe, the first female pro surfer of Senegal. Khadjou grew up in NGor Village, Dakar Senegal famous from being the first stop in the locally controversial “classic” documentary The Endless Summer (1966). As a young girl she would kayak around the notorious break of Ngor Right and watch all the surfers but she never saw a black woman surfer. At age 13 she started sneaking out of her house, through her window with her swimsuit hidden under her traditional Senegalese clothes to surf, at first to represent black women in Senegal and then the world. Due to external and subsequent internal struggles, for the past 3 years she has been unable to compete in any aspect of the sport she’s dedicated her life to. Despite that, determined to support the next generation of women in the community of NGor that she inspired, Khadjou, along with her coach Rhonda Harper of the International Non-Profit organization Black Girls Surf , has been training young girls to surf and provide the support she didn’t have in those formative years.