How do African throwing knives such as the kpinga compare to western throwing knives and their use ?

Western throwing knives are built exclusively for throwing, and little else. They’re meant to stick into wood, and that’s it. No American, aside from perhaps native tribes and a desperate soldier or two, has ever used throwing knives in combat. On the rare occasion that throwing weapons were used in America, they were regular knives or axes that weren’t originally intended for throwing- they might have been used by frontiersmen on the Oregon trail, or explorers similar to Louis and Clark, who were desperate for food, but didn’t have any ammo.
In Africa, throwing weapons were designed for killing, no questions asked. The tribal warfare and wide variety of tools needed when hunting and gathering made weapons like the kpinga, throwing darts, and even throwing clubs extremely popular. They would often carry these weapons as a sidearm rather than a main weapon. Spears and clubs alongside light hide shields would be used as primary weapon. Throwing weapons became popular because they didn’t have metal armor. The reason throwing weapons never became popular in Europe was because a thrown weapon would just bounce off of a guy’s armor, and give him a free weapon. In Africa, people often fought wearing hide, cloth, or even just grass undergarments. Because of that, they decided it was way easier to just throw a weapon quickly and unpredictably rather than put away your weapon, take out a bow, and shoot the enemy that probably stabbed or clubbed you to death by now.
If you’re really interested, there’s an awesome episode of Deadliest Warrior that covers the Zande Warriors and the weapons/tactics they used. I highly recommend it!

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