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Yoruba dancers

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SE Dancers

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Traditional (SS, I think)

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Yoruba


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Love this video

I miss Nigeria, chai! I want to go HOME


This is for my Idanre Yoruba people in the house
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Ebira Dance


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Nupe for NC Nigeria. They say they're northerners, but they dress as Yoruba people.


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More from Nupe.

Has anyone noticed that most Muslim songs have that very high tone? Why is that?


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The histories of the Nupe and Yoruba peoples seem to be intertwined. For instance, Yoruba oral tradition has it that the Igunnuko Festival as celebrated in Yoruba land has Nupe roots. Also the first person (or something like that) to wear a dress was a Nupe king. I read about these a while back and I think (not sure I remember correctly) it is one of the Ifa narratives.

How about some Badagry dance videos, the ones involving that big drum. Any dance lessons? I know there are some dance steps that royalty in Yoruba land, or at least Ijebu land, are required to learn for certain occasions. Are you aware of their names and do you have the YouTube links?

Ileke-IdI:

Love this video

I miss Nigeria, chai! I want to go HOME


This is for my Idanre Yoruba people in the house
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This one is nice. That house must be very old.

Beautiful. I want to visit Nigeria so bad.

amor4ce:

The histories of the Nupe and Yoruba peoples seem to be intertwined. For instance, Yoruba oral tradition has it that the Igunnuko Festival as celebrated in Yoruba land has Nupe roots. Also the first person (or something like that) to wear a dress was a Nupe king. I read about these a while back and I think (not sure I remember correctly) it is one of the Ifa narratives.

How about some Badagry dance videos, the ones involving that big drum. Any dance lessons? I know there are some dance steps that royalty in Yoruba land, or at least Ijebu land, are required to learn for certain occasions. Are you aware of their names and do you have the YouTube links?

hmmm, intereting. Do you think you'll be able to dig up a source for that Nupe-Yoruba relation? I've always heard the Nupe consider themselves Northerners (Hausa-Fulanis-Kanuris etc).

I'm sure that each Yoruba royals have their dance because each Yoruba states (or towns) have their culture dance; we call them[i] Ijo Ibile [/i]. I'm not too sure about the royal ones so I cant get into much details about it.


Badagry dance I found online

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Ok, I think it's about time we start recording high quality cultural dance on Youtube. So hard to find any nice quality ones.

More from Badagry

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I really feel for you guys abroad. you are truly missing a lot.

You are talking of dance what about varieties of Nigerian dishes prepared in purely Nigerian homes and kitchens.

I cant live abroad cause i cant feed on those leaves and pounded meat and various other rubbish i see on movies!

Imagine staying 2 months without swallowing Akpu/poundo and bitterleaf soup or amala with ewedu! Gosh hunga go kill me if even atempt to live abroad!

Una wey dey live abroad dey try! I swear una dey try!

There are Nigerian restaurants wherever many Nigerians stay abroad. Also, there are many shops that import Nigerian ingredients from Africa.

Here's a video of the Bariba people dancing. It is said that IBB is one of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY-1Gm8P3Lk

I read something like their system of traditional kingdoms being similar to that of the Yoruba.

fulani

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namfav:

fulani

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Interesting. . . . I've always wondered, why do Islamic regions (no necessarily the same language) always have that high toned voice while singing?

Ileke-IdI:

Interesting. . . . I've always wondered, why do Islamic regions (no necessarily the same language) always have that high toned voice while singing?

its just the style of how our music, to tell you the truth sometimes it is the production, if you look at the other muslims like the mandinka and wolof their music does not sound like this

namfav:

its just the style of how our music, to tell you the truth sometimes it is the production, if you look at the other muslims like the mandinka and wolof their music does not sound like this

What was she singing about?

And I saw various modes of dressing and styles, do you often dress like that?

Ileke-IdI:

What was she singing about?

And I saw various modes of dressing and styles, do you often dress like that?

she is sing that GOD will keep all fulani together whether from mali, guinea, senegal, niger, nigeria, burkinabe, cameroon etc. that we are all 1 of the same wherever we may go

most of those clothes in the video are bororo, us we don't wear like that, but there are some (like in some in the first 20 seconds)  in the video who we wear like

ezeagu:

There are Nigerian restaurants wherever many Nigerians stay abroad. Also, there are many shops that import Nigerian ingredients from Africa.

The restaurants are ridiculously expensive and so are the stores! Its expensive to eat Nigerian food at least where Im at in the midwest.

But @topic: Im thinking of teaching a couple of Nigerian dances to one of the dance groups we have on my campus and Im defo checking out these videos!!!

@Ileke-Idi, Graçias! O se gidi gan ni!

Some interesting stuff.

Another interesting stuff.