Capoeira on Gorée Island Senegal

A local instructor, Maitre Lion, talks about the history of Caporeira from Goree Island, a former slave port where many Africans were taken to the Americas.

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Sports

Tags:

• capoeira
• Senegal
• Gorée
• Island

[touro]

hi, i loose the contact with moctar, can somebody pass this contact to him??

i put 2 videos with him in goree in 2002,

thanx

toreiro

[heygeli]

please stop posting on all of the videos saying this. you must be a white person feeling guilty about the history of europeans enslaving people all over the world. why else would you spend your time posting such useless comments on all the Goree videos. idiot.

[ezimora2002]

no hating please your ancestors sold slaves too. ur ancestors were sold away between 15 and 18 century but slavery started in Africa in 10 th century with the arabs and that was 500 yrs before transatlantic slavery so ur ancestors sold slaves to the arabs.. and these descendants of slaves are pointing fingers at you too :)

[giltedged]

The ancestors of these people probably sold the slaves to the traders.

I've seen better capoeira dancers in Brazil which admittedly had many mestres.

[gordiop]

Bravo à toi Lioncapoeira pour l'historique détaillé de ce mouvement. Courage et bonne contination

[wadnab10]

salutles capoeiristes ; c wadie d'essaouira , inchallah on se retrouve à l ile de gorée pour faire de la capoeira; axé

[blackknowledge20]

Beautiful video on the art of Capoeira. We Africans must learn how to defend ourselves with our original fighting techniques. I will send too many! Thanks agsin Uhuru Sasa!!!