Tranga Rugie & The Music Lovers (ft. Chaggi & Dwayne) - Bigi Sma Floot (Live @ Kwaku Festival 2024)

I went to my third Kwaku Summer Festival 🇬🇭, 21 July 2024 to see my favourite Surinamese-Dutch 🇸🇷🇳🇱 folk singer, Tranga Rugie & The Music Lovers (feat. Chaggi & Dwane) perform a special rendition of their hit single Bigi Sma Floot. "Bigi Sma" is a festive day for elders in Suriname.
#abantu ✊🏾
1. Bigi Sma Floot (Official Music Video) • Tranga Rugie & The Mus...
Kwaku, “born on Wednesday,” in the Ghanaian Akan language, in this case refers to Wednesday, 1 July 1863, when slavery was abolished in Suriname. However, the freed people were indentured for a further 10 years, and Keti Koti, “broken chains,” thus officially occurred on 1 July 1873.
Kwaku is an annual four-weekend festival, a gathering of Black people (sic), initially created in 1975 for the community who couldn’t afford to go for summer vacation. It has since become one of the biggest festivals in the Netherlands attracting over 300,000 people. Roze zondag, Pink Sunday, is reputed to be the ”biggest Black gay event in Europe” although much of the Black Dutch gay community remains hidden. Pink Sunday is only but a little pink. 🩷
“The Bijlmer,” “the Bims,” “the ZO,” or Amsterdam Southeast, which houses the Nelson Mandelapark, is a predominantly Black district that is quite maligned in the Netherlands.
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