Zambia's Shaolin temple offers a softer face of China
The sprawling complex houses Africa's first Shaolin Temple -- part of a Buddhist monastic martial arts tradition -- set on a 20,000-square-metre plot 18 kilometres north of the capital."All I was interested in was training martial arts," he said, watching younger students rehearse wushu, the Chinese term for the martial arts better known in the West as kung fu.
For Chen, who arrived in Zambia in 2022 after growing up in a poor community in China, the temple is about more than martial arts.
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