Traditional Jola dancing. Video 1. July 2006

This video shows traditional Jola body patting and dances by girls from Mlomp, Casamance region, Southern Senegal. It was recorded at The Akonting Center for Senegambian folkmusic, Mandinari, Gambia July 2006

[@nicknolte6006]

My Casamance Wife and me , german, enjoyed your happy dancing children! Thanks for The Fun! Greet them, say casumai!

[@EarthaKit2]

The body slapping is like the dancing of the Pacific Rim Peoples. It's an art form and fun, plus the music is the voice. Good voices.Seems these girls are learning tradition.
Well done! Well done!

[@tize8310]

Ya know, this looks just like the "Pattin' da Juba" dance done by African-Americans in the south, but they can't possibly be related because the slave masters in America completely deafricanized the slaves, right? Or at least that's what we learned in school.
*sarcasm*

[@bluesmusicandwhatnot2845]

I mean, the Wikipedia page says something about it coming from the Congo, but they don’t provide a good source for that. The problem is more in the idea that such a dance was developed specifically because African drums were banned in North America (an oft repeated factoid that isn’t well sourced itself), when that’s unlikely to be the case, and the dance, like many other elements of early Afro-American culture, more likely has a near-direct equivalent somewhere in West or Central Africa. This seems more likely to be the origin, especially considering that hamboning/patting Juba was also supposedly known among the slaves in Suriname (historically “Dutch Guyana”), where an early gourd iteration of the banjo (“bania”) was also in use among the enslaved and maroon populations.

[@PrincesseSerpent]

j'ai vu cette video un bon nombres de mais je ne m'en lasse pas!!!cela demontre une fois de plus l'immensité culturelle musicale africaine .DIEU BENNISSE L'AFRIQUE!!!

[@vpwillnw]

The instrument looked like an akonting.

[@abielove]

omg so funy i use to do this back i miss africa so much........lol

[@rosesune]

I love it! Beautiful!

[@paapakobe]

I LOVE IT, Thank U

[@cavaleer]

Haha, that's cute. Good for the kids.

[@paapakobe]

I LOVE IT, Thanks Ulf!!!! what is the instrument playing in te background a one point?

[@v3rses]

@Jedazinsky so by natural law you mean natural ignorance right?