Became a founder member when the school joined the Ryobukai Karate do.ġ986 - Philip Moustache, myself and two others converted to Kyokushin Karate. Apart from all this, there are also special classes especially geared for the physically handicapped and the blind.ġ980 - Started training in Karate - with Philip Moustache and others in Kime Ryu, a mixed system.ġ983 - Met and trained with Henry Naiken who currently heads his own school called Aikendo.ġ985 - Restarted with Philip Moustache. Classes are also conducted in many states for members of the Police, Army and other active uniformed services. He visited Japan on a regular basis and was the highest graded foreigner under Kancho Hideyuki Ashihara.Īfter many years of hard work and dedication, Ashihara Karate has spread all over India with more than 100 dojo in most states with an estimated membership of 30 000. He, together with Sensei Weilgama of Sri Lanka, was the first foreign dojo to become members of the NIKO. Being impressed by his performance, and with Kancho knowing of his determined attitude, he was invited to the Ashihara Honbu dojo whereafter he switched to Ashihara Kaikan. Shihan officiated at the 10th All Japan Championships where Ninomiya Shihan became the champion.

After a long training stint in Japan, Shihan was appointed the Country Representative and for many years developed the Kyokushin style of Karate in India. He is Shihan Dadi Bulsara, who trained personally under Sosai Mas Oyama, Kancho Hideyuki Ashihara and by other Japanese Masters like Shihandai Yuzo Goda, Hatsuo Royama and also Shihan Peter Chong of Singapore. As we shall see, many gaps in our knowledge remain, while current research suggests that major revisions might be made to existing reconstructions of Swahili linguistic and cultural history.On this page, we will be featuring our Senior Instructors and Branch Representatives around the World.įull Contact Karate in India owes its existence to one man's efforts. Needless to say, this work is neither exhaustive nor unproblematic. The potential contribution of research of this kind to understandings of the African past is well established (Nurse 1997 Blench 2006), and the Swahili-speaking world has already been the subject of important studies (including Nurse and Spear 1985 Nurse and Hinnebusch 1993). It is based largely on research in historical and comparative linguistics undertaken since the 1970s and continuing through to the present. How did this extraordinary transformation begin? This chapter outlines what is known (and not known) about the origins and initial development of the Swahili language and its dialects, and what this tells us in turn about the history of its speakers. This is intended both as an introduction to the subject for non-linguists, and also as a lead-in to the suggestions for further research which take up the second part of the paper.įrom modest beginnings as the speech of a small group of mixed farmers, Swahili has become the lingua franca of millions of people in Eastern Africa and beyond (Lewis et al. In this paper I will review progress in understanding these relationships, focusing on the area between the African Great Lakes and the East African coast and islands. This regional pattern of linguistic diversity has provided a significant stimulus to the development of historical linguistic research, from the late 1960s through to the present.3 One outcome of this research has been to highlight relationships between linguistic and environmental diversity, and their mediation by social and cultural practice. This is especially so in Eastern Africa, which boasts the presence of branches of all four widely recognised African language phyla: Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Afroasiatic, and Khoisan. Since the publication of Joseph Greenberg’s (revised) classification of African languages (1963), historical linguistics has become an increasingly important part of African historians’ toolkit.

Sabaki challenge 1994