Apparently sabers are alive and well in Ivory Coast

[KuKulzA28]

Cool photo! It is interesting that the same can be seen with fighters in Mindanao where big blades (like sundang, bolos, barong) are still sometimes used as back-up weapons. Of course machetes and local equivalents are common weapons for most tropical folks. Obviously blades and other close quarters weapons weren't too distant or distant at all in many of these cultures' "martial memories"...