Fête Diola Cabrousse Casamance Sénégal

Fête célébrant la fin des luttes. Sport national du Sénégal qui rayonne jusqu'en Guinée Bissau et au délà dans toute l'Afrique de l'Ouest.

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Travel & Events

Tags:

• Senegalese
• fight
• Lutte
• Sénégalaise
• Sport
• Casamance
• Cap
• Skirring
• Senegal

[Azizip17]

@jongandal Thank you very much for sharing that information. It's great to be introduced to other cultures through watching YouTube videos & reading comments such as yours. I shall try to learn more about your culture.

Best wishes to you!

[jongandal]

@Azizip17

The Diola have a number of celebrations which all involve singing, dancing, bombolong and drums playing (bombolong being a tree trunk with an internal excavation that emits particular sounds). in this video, you have a mix of drum and bombolong. This here is celebration of the harvest

[jongandal]

@Azizip17

ok, Azizp. i will try and explain a few things. i am from Casamance and some of my roots are related the Cabrousse people. Cabrousse is one component of the wider Diola nation which is made up of over 60 sub groups.

[Azizip17]

Also, thanks wickirsinn, for your comparison of the dances in the video (& perhaps also the spirit of the occassion) with Brazilian samba and those festivities.

The music and dancing to a lesser extent also reminded me of Native Americans dancing that I have seen via YouTube videos.

I hope some people will share some information (in English for those like me who don't speak another language) about the purpose of the festivities.

Thanks again to the poster of this video!!

[Azizip17]

Through googling the key words Casamance & the Diola (and thanks to the translation feature from French to English) I learned that The Diola are a population group in Senegal who occupy the Lower Casamance. I also read about initiation rites and about Aline Sitoe Diatta, an early 19th century Queen, Priestess, & Heroine of the resistance Casamance.

Is the celebration in the video in honor of or related to this Heroine?

[Azizip17]

Thanks for this post! Would someone please share the reason/s for the festival? Was it for religious reasons? And if so, what religion? I think I saw an animal carried in one clip. Is this for sacrifice? It's interesting to see the different clothing worn by the people at the festival, including Western tops & baseball hats. In the first clip I also saw book bags that several men wore on their backs. I prefer the traditional Senegalese clothing but that's just me.

-an African American sister

[SelfMinusI]

that is some spellbinding limbic enchantment right there!

[djdjany]

They are very beautiful people

[wickirsinn]

Se vc veja esse clip, vc endende da onde vem o nosso Samba do Brasil.

Wenn Du Dir diesen Clip anschaust, verstehst Du wo unser Samba do Brasil seinen Ursprung hat.

If you watching this Clip, you understand where our Samba do Brasil comes from.

[nonena71]

Wonderful...people who know how to celebrate themselves :-)