Possible Japanese blade on weird african mountings?

[dominnimod]

I honestly have no clue what this is. I was checking african sword knives and such, and saw this,

which at first i almost discarded as a cheap souvenir thing, but the blade looked nothing as how the blades on these swords look, in fact it seemed to have the shape of

a Japanese blade? shinogi-zukuri. So i asked for more photos close up, and they look ugly.

The blade is real filthy and seems to have been used to cut fruit on a backyard. But this aside, the ura side the blade is flat?

I have heard of these blades with a flat side, but the are usually on shobu zukuri blades and on the omote side?

Seller says he bought it on belgium,

In any case its probably nothing but it bugged me a bit so i would like to share this thing and hear some thoughts

Cheers

 

[Brian]

I don't think African. I think SE Asian, hence why a wakizashi or part of a Katana got repurposed.

[ChrisW]

Poor thing's seen a hard life.