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Robert Laffont
EAN : 9782221192764
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 234
Size : 1 x 215 mm
They call me the Bruce Lee Africain

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Release date : 20/04/2017
“My father wanted me to be a footballer. I became the African Bruce Lee”: the extraordinary adventure of the first non-Chinese man to become a Shaolin
monk.
At age eleven, Dominique Saatenang leaves his home village of Bafou, Cameroon, to start secondary school in Douala, the country’s economic capital, where his skills as a young soccer player will have more chances to be noticed. The night before classes start, his aunt and uncle take him to see... At age eleven, Dominique Saatenang leaves his home village of Bafou, Cameroon, to start secondary school in Douala, the country’s economic capital, where his skills as a young soccer player will have more chances to be noticed. The night before classes start, his aunt and uncle take him to see a movie: Enter the Dragon with Bruce Lee. It’s a revelation—not only is it the first movie he’s ever seen in his life (and his first time setting foot in a movie theater), but it will also determine his vocation: “I want to do kung fu.” The journey is full of obstacles, but in Bruce Lee, he found “a discipline, a master, an idol.” At the age of twenty-four, without knowing a single word of Chinese,
he goes to China for a month for training in wushu (the real name of kung fu). He will stay there four years as the first foreigner admitted into this temple of the discipline, where martial arts training is a life philosophy. Many years later, the former kung fu champion will become the first African Buddhist monk and the itinerant foreign ambassador of the Shaolin temple.
 
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EAN : 9782221192764
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 234
Size : 1 x 215 mm
Robert Laffont