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dancing was born on the continent of
africa
and that is why africans are the
greatest dancers the world has ever seen
yeah i know some of you might not agree
but watch the end of this video and i
will
show you just why africans are the
greatest dancers
and why we have the best dances and why
we are
so unique and different from most people
of the world because
every african dance tells a story
and means a thing so back to the video
african dance is a lot of things and has
been described in so many different ways
it could be art it's visual it's
energetic
it's recreational but above all african
dances
are educational did you know that
african culture african education was
often transmitted through
dance and music and that was some way
that the
older generation could pass on to the
next generation
stories about events that have happened
and we're going to see how that
happens in so many different scenarios
in the life of a typical african
so if you're not african well sit back
relax and enjoy this but i can assure
you that if you're
african then i'm sure we're gonna talk
about something that would give you some
real good memories because you'd be able
to relate to
a lot of the stuff that i am going to
talk about in this video
so when do we dance we dance in every
situation the typical african
has a dance for every situation so we
have different dances with which we mark
various milestones in a cycle of life
then there are marriages there are
dances for marriage and again if you're
a fan of african movies you would have
seen
lots and lots of those in african
movies where people get married and
there are those dances and beautiful
dresses and all of that and of course
when people die we have dances for death
and i'm sure
you'd remember these famous ghanaian
undertakers
yeah they kind of became famous in the
year 2020 when their
dances went viral and yes those dances
happen at
actual funeral and there are people in
those caskets who are going to get
buried so
i know by the cringy for some of you
bought in those cultures
it's a beautiful thing they do and that
is your way of showing
respect to the dead because in africa
we don't die we multiply and so when
somebody transcends
to join the ancestors we do not consider
them dead
we only believe that they have moved on
and will return
because in this continent reincarnation
is a thing
when people protest especially black
people a very typical story would be the
gum
boots dance coming out of south africa
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now in appetite south africa black mine
workers were not allowed to sing
or dance while working and despite all
the restrictions that were put on them
they learned to stand side by side and
to dance and read them using their gum
boots and today isn't that a wonderful
beautiful beautiful kind of dance
we all enjoy it now but a lot of people
don't know the history of that
that dance came as a result of protests
by people who wanted to dance while
walking but would
not be allowed to do that how awesome
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