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In Burkina Faso, we found reports about a football competition where the Russian national anthem was played, “friendship lessons” in schools where students are taught about Russia, a competition of the Soviet martial art “sambo”, first aid workshops for citizens and policemen, and a graffiti festival where participants drew Russian President Vladimir Putin alongside Burkina Faso’s former leader Thomas Sankara, all sponsored by African Initiative.

He took up judo, which he continued as a black belt during his presidency, and the Russian martial art of sambo, and stayed close to his childhood partners, Arkady and Boris Rotenberg.

His first name was derived from a common West African name that came to be widely used and only later became a slur, largely because of a series of books written in 1899 about a character named Little Black Sambo.

Esther, Lucy, and Sambo Andersen were part of a group that had willingly boarded a British warship, the Savage, in the spring of 1781.

Living near them were other enslaved people with special skills, such as masons and carpenters like Sambo Andersen.