An Afar folk Culture video

[ayiabdou]

je ne sais pas l,anglais mais je voudrais a quelques bete qui a étè mis ici,sachez que les afars ou ils soint sont les memes,nous sommes le seul peuple qui parle la meme langue dans tous les pays ou on se trouve

[ThePinkLei]

is there anyway i can get the full version of the second song with the women?

[proudhornafrica]

long live somali,oromo,afar people

[proudhornafrica]

i love afar dhaanto

[kiliawta]

hey all arabs in the moiddle east have the same root, religion, language but u cant make them one country, that is the same with the afar and somali ppl, afar Eritrean is Eritrean it got nothing to do with ethiopia or djibouti, otherwise it is called expantionism.

[naftiihure]

is this somali folk dance ??

[GULABARISO]

Nvm the first dance is similar, but the dance that starts around 3:30 identical. Mashallah.

[GULABARISO]

Wow..Mashallah

The first 2 dances are just like our dance by the harargee oromos.

The first one with the male but instead we use the blade thing around u, and other oromos use spears, its called Dhichisaa. The second dance i only seen among the afran qallo women in east harargee, we call it Hellee. Nice seeing your culture. Inshallah all Afar lands unite and become a great nation in the horn.

Salam Wa'alaykum..

[abedeb]

Afar is the source of ethiopia

[bashiircali22]

Everyone living in the Horn of Africa is Brother's. You have to know it.

Somalia, and those living in western Somalia Ogadenia i Afar, and Oromia s Brother's.

And you need to know that our enemy is Ethobia.

We have almost the same language smma culture. Boycott Ethobia Fuck all Muslims without habasha

I'm from Somalia and I greet you

[bashiircali22]

Everyone living in the Horn of Africa is Brother's. You have to know it.

Somalia, and those living in western Somalia, Afar and Oromia Ogadenia is Brother's.

And you need to know that our enemy is Ethobia.

We have almost the same language smma culture. Boycott Ethobia Fuck all Muslims without habasha

I'm from Somalia and I greet you

[ababastingababa]

What do they do for a living? Do they mine gold?

[CushiticSomalianMale]

Blesssssssss eastern-Cush'ites

[CushiticSomalianMale]

Bless Somalia's cousins the afar's and also the tutsi's.. even tho the Tutsi's originaly came from us somalians.. especialy from the Somalian Hawiye-Ajuuraans thats where Tutsi's originated from...

[CushiticSomalianMale]

us Somalian's have a similar dance, we call this dance Dhaanto....

[gurmad911]

Anfar & Somalis are much closer than being Cushites only, atleat 1 branch closer than their Oromo sibling.

Interesting dance.

[abuhachim1]

waaaw is goood  and sanchinal shaow ee somali people we r brathers we have to know that gad bless cushitic

[samana1fromsomalia]

it is just like saar, or dhanto

[yochananbenzakkai]

crazy naked savages.negroes brainless.moon god worshipers.call themself arabs

[Mudug2006]

Lets not get over excited, sure east africans(Horn of Africa) share lots of similarities, and they are not aware of it, because they are seperated by boundaries and international borders, and thereby do not enteract and have no idea of the otherside wheater jin or insi, lol. So all the east africans:

Amhara, Somali, Afar, Tigray, Oromo, Harari, Borana, Rendille, and Beja have similarities. So to our afar brothers please do not get flattered, its just a suprise to alot of east africans.

[ikar07]

lolz omg they look like somali dhanc and wearing somali dress too very beatiful.

[LegendaryCreativity]

Clearly you are mistaken, your traditional clothing is not adorned with gold. Nor do you carry a knife such as these, or arrows behind your head. mm sorry, no resemblance

[cumar01]

Its shocking,they look like us

[somali}dance like somali.

beautifull though

[sirwallaby]

somali dress and dance like them more like it...these people are ancient people,somali lineage doesnt go more than 1500 years.

[kushlion]

afars are beautiful. from an oromo bro

[SomaliDuriyaad]

I love this Video big up Afar beautiful Cushitic people

[kadafee19]

loool u somalis are sick wallahi arent ur own demm people enought for u leave afar people alone they dont want ur dumb asses lolstupid people

[hayezanawer]

pour ceux qui comprennent le francais. c est vraiment bizarre a chaque fois q un putain de troudebaliste somalien (tribaliste) complexe repond une horde d handicapes somaliens complexes se met a gerbe. ecoutez sales encules de laquais de tribaliste " afars are not zoomalis ok"

thanks

[concreterose808]

Is there any need to call us "zoomalis"?

there are a lot of names I can call u, but i'm not going to stoop to your level.

[makamoukaram]

g lis bcp de commentere qui mentionne la difference entre les afar de djibouti ,ethiopie et l'erytrie b1 que ns vivont sous different regime les afar reste toujour des afar frere et toujour unie inchallallah le jour viendra ou on va parle de vrai triangle afar avec notre propre drapeau et vont va sortir sous tout se regime (issa waraba,amhara et tigre)ns somme un peuple fier de se coutume tradution et se histoire sachez que le mots afar et syn de guerrie,sage et lion

vive les triangle afar

[samana1fromsomalia]

WHAT SHOCKING IS THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE AFAR AND SOMALIA. ALL THE MATES MAKING WHICH IS PART OF THE SOMALI CULTURE. THE DANCE CLOSELY RESEMBLES SOMALI DANCE CALL SAAR they are nomades like the somalis and the languages in almost related. shocking

[habeshenya]

Both are very similar people.

Why are you shocked?

Djibouti Somalia is nest to each other. And Djibouti is next to Eritrea and Ethiopia. There is no suprise there.

[LegendaryCreativity]

I reply to inform you on the mistake you've taken upon yourself. The Great Afar tribe is a very unique and although you might recognize some similarities, the Afars are not Somalians. We've obtained our own language, a wondrous culture three region in which we currently occupy and our ancestries are very different. P.S The dance is absolutely nothing like the Somalians. Thank you.

[AxmedGurey]

SALAM FROM SOMALIA BROTHERS

[alsahr111]

السلام عليكم كيف الحال نحن من عفار الجزيره ونوجه تحيتنا لكم عفار جيبوتي

[DeRoquencourt]

Above all they looked upon as a threat to the mere existence of the state as they claim the Red Sea coastline in whose absence Eritrea loses its reason detre. The Afars inhabit more than 2/3 of Eritreas coastline.

[DeRoquencourt]

In Eritrea it is a taboo to speak of the existence of different nationalities except in the folklore performances. The Afars have little to be happy about in that country. The majority of them were against the secession of Eritrea from Ethiopia from the outset. They carry the burnt of all the problems in that country.

[ahmddin]

I love AFAR because they are the most nationalistic ETHIOPIANS than any group in ETHIOPIA. They would rather die defending the home land than being sold like a lot of our neighbors to colonizers! They never surrendered for that matter the entire ETHIOPIA has never surrender to any of the the colonizers. WE, ETHIOPIANS have a blood that runs deep and will never EVER give up or get defeted to and by anyone!! and AFAR ppl stand right on top there. God bless my PPL. aselamualikum

[teklemic]

Right; even their camels recognize our national tri clour.

[kadafee19]

i am a somali and i think there should be stop to this.Afar ethiopians afar somalis bs Afars are afars they have there own culture there own uniqueness and i just wanted to point out too afras the reason why somalis like to say afars are our brothers is because we have some history dating to hamed guray we have same religion islam. I can tell u this i would rather eat from the same plat with u then tigre habasha oromo put together so dont think we somalis have something against u my brothers .

[teklemic]

What i wanted to ask you is are all somilis one tribe? is not the war that ravaged your country due to ethinic differences? I heard there are several ethinic groups in Somalia like ours in Ethiopia.

[Sheiko10]

Let me correct you on that..we all look same but we are different people.Somali's are somalis,afars are Afar and ethiopians are ethiopians.Afar people lives in different countries that is ethiopia,djibouti and eritrea.

[samana1fromsomalia]

somalis are same ethnic but different tribes. their are 4 major tribes in somalia. Darood the largest, issaq, hawiye and rahanweyn. with in this 4 lager tribes there are hundred of clans and thousands of subclans. having said that their are ethic manorities are aren't somalis. the largest ethnic manority been the bantus who were brought to country as slaves, the arabs in northeast somalis and bravanese(half somali half portuges) somalis amke up 85% OF THE COUNTRIES POPULATION.

[MzeeDala]

@kadafee19 Brother there is no such thing as Ethiopian! cause Ethiopia consist of vast majority Cushitic tribes and some parasitic habesha...invasive species from Yemen!,,,Afar, Somalis and Oromos are brothers. DNA samples have prove that...go look at the Somalid race...Habesha people have divided all the kush tribes look all our people are struggling in East Africa!

[MyMohamednur]

@MzeeDala yeees you are write afar somalis orroms are real brothers and i say you thankyou verry much

[EsamAhmed02]

I thought afar men are supposed to have afros.

Nice Vid tho

Ethiopian Muslim in Toronto Canada

[emelythio741]

who that fuck are you?

son of bitch graduTE12

[muhamedibn]

l'm from chad and these people look just like us and we have the same dance in northern chad if u don't believe check it out

[AskariWaryaa]

You are mistaken, the Habesha that were taken slaves were nearly 100% Nilotic speakers, even in the past. They were known as coming from Habesha which covered large areas of Sudan in the past.

And the modern Tigray, Amhara etc were related to the ancient Sabeans. Infact the ancient Semites came from africa and assimilated the modern day asiatic arabs!

[AddagaSaho]

Salaam Waleykum

Nagaa,

Afar is not close to Somali!!!

I am Saho from Ethiopia and Ethiopia Afar we are same people!

Our language is 90% the same almost u cant tell difference!

Somali and Oromo language is similiar to Afar, Saho Irob buttttttt we have big difference.

The similiar thing between Afar , Saho, Oromo, Somali are we all are MUSLIM mashallah and Kushitic!

[neoconkiller101]

I fucking hate fake narcissistic nationalistic Somalis. Listing I am a proud Somalis but that does not give any reason to denigrate and disrespect other nation-people and culture. Its obvious to any person with a modicum of gray matter that Afar have their own language & culture. So stop the hate.

[abuhachim1]

you great man im from afar ilove somali but not usifull to hate us othere

we r same but not one we r brothers but not onekind i like and im happy becoz i get men like ya

[AskariWaryaa]

Hey bro

We were probably 1 people some time in the past. We are brothers!

Thats all Cushitic peoples!

[CushiticSomalianMale]

naaah bro.. Afar and somalian's is like one in a way, because i remember my bigger broder looks like this Afar guy that i saw.. and to be honest they looked alike very much, same height, same slimness and everything, we are cousins tho not broders from the same parents, but we are from the same forefathers ancestors, Root's.. We are cush'itic, but we are acctualy eastern-cush'itic.. eastern-Cush'itic people are Somali, Tutsi and Afar, oromo's they steal our culture and tradition clothes

[butiamawake]

I see somalians r u still on telling us we are not what we are lol

Bolelij Yes all muslims are 1 nation UMMa Always choose a muslim brother over a non lol

[EthiopianGirl123]

samana1fromsomalia

sirwallaby is from Eritrea not Ethiopia.

I really wish somalians quit attacking Ethiopians when Eritreans are talking about Somalians.

ughh!!

Anywho,

I <3 this video.

Afar people are the best Ethiopians ever!!

[sirwallaby]

ethiopiangirl123"Afar people are the best Ethiopians ever!! " <--------- lol u acting ethiopian as usual.lol every1 is ethiopian even chinese ppl r ethiopian according to u.

[teklemic]

If you come to think of it, it is true. All human beings are Ethiopians. Evidence_ Lucy or Dingkinesh aka Australopithecus afarensis is the direct ansestor of Homo sapiens. Irrefutable fact

[sirwallaby]

you can think ethiopians are descendants of lucy if you want but im not and i believe im desendants of adam and eve.

[teklemic]

It is not a matter of want but fact

[sirwallaby]

its good u say that at least you are admitting it,nice to meet you descendants of lucy.

[TadjRamsis]

Australopithecus Afarensis, ok? where the Dinkinesh comes from? Are you trying to tell us she was Amara, Oromo, or Tigre ? Look at the name itself " Australopithecus Afarensis," and is that tells you something ? Afar, heuh ? How about Ardipithecus ramidus( from afar word "ardi" = ground and "ramid"= root) and Ardipithecus Kadabba ("kadabba from afar word meaning grandfather).Don't you have amharic name or word for these skeletons? Stop distrorting history and recognize to Afar their history !

[teklemic]

Dinknesh and Lucy are vernacular names. Dinkinesh is the Amharic version. As you know Amharic is our official language in Ethiopia. All the tribes, nationalities you named have been known under the umbrella of Ethiopia. You may consider Afar is the close up of Ethiopia,which i tried to point out as the cradle of the origin of Homo sapiens, mankind if you like.

[bolelij]

im confused, since when did religion become the basis of a nationality? so because the majority of yemen's are muslim, does that mean that yemen and somalia should become one? just wondering

big ups to all Cushites and Semites...dont forget the Omotics and the Nio-litics to, they ALL make up EAST AFRICA

[coolguyest]

Afar people are the first people on the mother earth..To assure you read about lucy a million skeleton in afar region called "afarensis"+ I also wanto inform u that that "LUCY " WAS NOT FOUND IN "SHABALLEH RIVER" OR ZANZIBAAR IN TANZANIA.....BEFORE YOU PLACE YOUR COMMENT HERE GO TO RESOURCE AND READ ABOUT THE HISTORY AFAR AND ALSO ASK OTHER AFAR PPLE.

aLL THE BEST

[cambara12]

any afar man in australia, i wld luv 2 meet afar

[shawdy27]

i'm afar lol

[kingmusti1]

what for beatiful people love from a somali to my cushitic brothers.

[superstrenghtsakura]

First of somali's in Djibouti kill afars

second we afar don't want to be part of nothing we have our own culture

Third we dont have the same cultures, and i dont know what you mean like behave We afars are unique

[shawdy27]

hold on have u actually been there, cause somalis in djibouti DONT kill afars its the ones from ethiopia that do trust me i've been there nuff and some family members have died in ETHIOPIA from somalians there cause they were in the wrong areas, djibouti somalis r chilling other then that its the ones from ethio & somalia..

P.S i am afar...

[AddagaSaho]

Salam Walekum Warehamutallahi Weberkatu

I am Saho from Ethiopia and Afar Ethiopian and us are same people.

mashallah i love this video!

[kadafee19]

im a somali and im talking to the somalians who say afar are from us or what ever u poeple u dont need nobody u got ur own prablams so fix that first and did u know somalians are the largist ethnic people in east africa who speak the same and have same culture and religion u need nobady ok

[StraightouttaSomalia]

u r wrong..da oromo are da biggest group in east africa 2 speak da same language..dey number 0ver 40 million and dey all speak da same language...somaliz only number 10-20 millions..and we dont even speak da same language..its wrong how people say we all speak da same language..we got millions of none somaliz in somalia who try 2 speak somali and been tryin in der whole life but cant speak properly and u wouldnt understand dem if u a real somali...

[sirwallaby]

oromo is not da biggest ethnic group,hausa is bigger.

[StraightouttaSomalia]

hausa is a nigerian tribe not from da east and dey aint related 2 no1 in east africa...we talkin bout east africa not west africa

[dahlakislands]

straightouttasomalia, i was told somali speak da the same somali language and ahve the same culture. what do u mean all somali don't speak the same language?? dop u mean they have accent or some slight word variation. or do u mean different languages as in arabic and english.

[AskariWaryaa]

Dahlakislands there is only 1 Somali language with dialects. The Somali people originate from Northern Somalia.

However there is a group of people in the south that speak may may which is another cushetic language.

[butiamawake]

But we dont speak the same language It aint even close- stop being so damn chauvinistic brother

[kisauti]

who are the afar people? im from zanzibar (tanzania). i gotta stay on my eastcost shit styl.

[LuvEthiopia]

they live in northeast ethioipia and in Eritrea as well.

[redibis07]

Correct me if I am wrong but isn't the entire African continent named after the Afar?

[sirwallaby]

lol no africa comes from da greek word frica which means hot or not cold,addin a-frica means land of da hot place.sorry to disappiont u but afar should still be proud.

[bloodmoney]

long live the Cushetic peoples and kingdoms!!!

big up Afars Saho, Somali, Beja, Bilen, Gabra, Oromo, and Booran.

i think, we need the likes of "ahmed gurey" and imam manfuz of zaila to unite somalis,afar and saho.

[sugulllle]

Abdi and Graduate i have says both of u sorry brothers for ur arogence. i think you need a bit education.

[calinoor]

Ignorant child, educate yourself, GO TO SCHOOL ! Internet should not be your source of learning. I've never seen an AFAR in my entire life. To hear that AFARS are like Somalis makes my blood shoot through my veins. Knowing further that the AFARS are 100% Muslims, makes me very emotional towards them. How dare you talk negative about them? Grow up!

[AskariWaryaa]

Afars are Cushetic people, along with Saho, Somali, Beja, Bilen, Gabra, Oromo, Booran etc etc

[kadafee19]

im a somali i dont believe in afar ethiopins afar afar somalis or what ever other people who are trying to make afar people one of thm thier is one afar leave them alone demmm

[xikmaddumar]

Viva Afar Somali

[seko1239]

fucken dog ... bad fat cat .. i guess know you know Afar ?

[spaceketema]

seko1239...please don't put yourself down to the level of these worthless internet thugs. He is just trying to put down Afar people fully knowing who they are. Don't respond to people like this fool by the name "graduate12"...I bet let alone to graduate he probably never went to school to begin with. Worthless cyber thug!

[Soulful26]

graduate you`re such stupid.if you never heard about the afar you don`t know where the evolution started for example "lucy"

[bolekid]

Great Ethiopian video!

[xalandhagoosh]

what ever all your haters say somalis and afar are brothers and sisters ( jebertis) and no stupid minded people can change that

[Doyran007]

Bonjour,

Je suis Afar. Il n'y a pas des Afars d'Ethiopie, de Djibouti ou d'Erythrée. Cette vision des nationalités n'existe uniquement que dans l'imaginaire des Nons Afars. Les Afars ne connaissent pas des frontières. Ils sont chez eux dans le triangle Afar ( 150 000 km2). En tout cas, en tant qu'Afar moi je vous aime Tous même si certains d'entre vous ne portent pas forcement les Afars dans le coeur pour des raions qui leur sont personnelles. We love you

[Netsanet]

lol to everyone who made nasty comments about Afar people. Don't talk s*** about people you don't know jack s*** about. Great video...and it does not really matter what country they are from. They are Afar....period.

[bolekid]

98% of Afar people live in Ethiopia. They are Ethiopians. A few thousand live in Djibouti. and a few hundred in eritrea.

[sirwallaby]

lol how could u take some1 like boldkid seriously.too much agame propaganda i guess.

[darwiish22]

no matter where thy live but thy are afar and thy are my somali so cry for dem

[seko1239]

Afar people aren't trying to barge but they don't accetp anyone attempt to deny or disfigure their history ..

[seko1239]

hi Bajuuni, Djibouti is just for Afar tribe , issa people were throwen out of somil and then Afar tribe welcomed them because they were muslims..

[barde59]

I thought Afars were just wild bunch that killed any living thing that come within reach of their spears and curved knives. I bet all these songs were just war dance. Do Afars have peaceful tradition like traditional food apart from knives, spears, and some war dance?

[Znarfalul83]

you are ignorant in your opinion. every culture has a nurturing and peaceful way of living including yours. other wise such culture wouldn't exist to an extent. all though i'm not Afar...the Afar people are fearless worriors who protect what is theirs. and i find their courage and abilities is what has enabled them to sustain thus far. i admire the beauti of their culture.

[klauzesbro]

thank you

[sorso08]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE post some stuff from the issa tribe! PLEASE! it was a loooong time ago i saw my people.

[butiamawake]

Miss djibouti ER ERM i trust a somalian to TRY to put down my people - Still doesnt put the rest higher.

Contemplate sister - assuming ur muslim.

Proud to be afar!! hate nationalist crap but stil we are wonderful people :D

Salamata

[kingoffallking]

hey y'll as i knew their is only one and only one afar people, please stop a separation

[Mudug2006]

WOW! VERY POWERFUL. We NEED to see more Afar Videos Please.  I am a Somali, and i'm very amazed and suprised how VERY Similar we are with the Afars, everything from Clothing, looks, songs, dance, WOW!

[Munster82]

Mudug thats because They have the same culture, history, and a very similiar language!! Its even closer with Saho!! They used to call the Saho-Afar tribe

[klauzesbro]

The Afar people live in three different regions, those being Northeast Ethiopia, Southeast Elitrea, and djibouti.. which make up the ''Afar Triangle'' Djibouti is a Afar country the issa and somali people came when the french came.. so this is the afar land not somali nor the afar and issa's,,, just afar... all somalian people do his destruct other peoples country becuase they don't have their own.

[Bajuuni]

and who are u telling us this. Jabuuti belongs to both Issa tribe of Somali and Afar, however Issa are in the majority and always have been so. Remember the country was called French Somali coast. Atleast the Somali people have consept of country, which the wild Danakili lack.

Nabad gelyo!

[klauzesbro]

Last time i heard it's not the Afar who don't have a country it's the Somalians ( in self Distruction) there around the world ruining other countries like here in the United states they kill each other over khat. And yea they can't driver, they just don't know how a car works. Just look on there bumpers it's full of damages and marks.

[faydjib]

loooolz why you hating somalis that much klauzesbro, did they kick you out of djibouti. it is ok we will let you in back one day don't worrie.

[SomaliDuriyaad]

You do know that issa is SOMALI? right.

[Bm0h]

Beautiful! Reminded me of my own oromo culture...

[snoopdogdog]

They are EThiopian afar but i love afar people stil cuz they are the gangsta people in all Ethiopia but we all gangsta EThiopia for life baby ethiopia afar

[habeshabiba]

as history tells us the Afar make up about a third of the population of Djibouti, and are one of the nine recognised ethnic divisions (kililoch) of Ethiopia. The Afar language (Cushitic) is spoken in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, eastern Eritrea, and Djibouti, but as the Afar are traditionally nomadic herders, they may be found further afield.

[klauzesbro]

no They are djiboutian Afar, i know I'am one myself

[spaceketema]

At the end they just dance like the Eritrean Tigringa ethinc group. Even the beat and rhythm looks like Eritrean Tigringa. Anyways we all are the same!

[ICSKLE]

Hey brother, that's obvious but let's respect the last song (on stage), as a unique warriors dance. I've only seen one Tigrinya wariors dance (Two guys cross each other with spears). THe Afar's however have many, as displayed. War songs is what they're known for.

[spaceketema]

Ya bro! Afar are known as fearless Warriors in my country Eritrea too! They are one of the nine beautiful ethnic groups in Eritrea. I am not talking about the dance in the stage But the dance that starts at 4:08 and ends 4:58. If you see the way Eritrean Tigrigna dance you will get why I am saying this. Anyways all of Eritrean, Ethiopain, Somali and Djibouti's people look the same in culture and facial futures. Peace my people!

[ICSKLE]

That's why I reply with that's obvious, I'm not ignorant to our heratige, I know they have the same rep. across all borders. I diden't know you meant the second to last song, you're right.

[klauzesbro]

thats becuz those were eritrean afar

[greatersomalia]

they look like somalians...

[spaceketema]

Yes they are the next closest relatives of Somalis in culture and language.

[Munster82]

thats wrong the next closest to afar is the saho tribe

[butiamawake]

Agreed

[butiamawake]

Have you ever heard the Afar Language? Obviously not lol - we closer to the saho

[Munster82]

Thank you!...

[Munster82]

hehe wrong! Next closest relatives to Afars are Saho people...

[klauzesbro]

now there afar, i would know I'm afar

[butiamawake]

LOL JUST let us be AFAR people -

[Theambasaman]

I think this is in Ertirea, cause the Afar in Ethiopia have afros.

[fdama]

No, its in Djibouti.

[jochen2]

Hidden rich cultures. I am serprised as the one from Addis that we have so meny cultures undermined by all dictatores like melese, Dergu, Hailesilase.

Kinijit may change all this.