Tribal Dance in Kakamega Rain Forest

Tribal, inauguration dance performed by dancers from the Tiriki clan of Luhya people in western Kenya.
The dancers come from the village of Kibiri just outside the Kakamega Forest. They belong to the local grass root organisation KEEP, which works to conserve the endangered rain forest through education and different projects to reduce the pressure on the forest from the fast growing population around it.
The dance is almost one hour long. This short version
contains modern elements like the chainsaw and the female dancers. No females were traditionally allowed in the forest during inauguration cermonies of the young boys. Filmed in June 2007 at Isecheno forest station.

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• Tiriki
• Kibiri
• Luhya
• KEEP
• Kakamega
• Rain
• Forest
• rainforest
• tribal
• dance
• environment
• tourism
• western
• kenya
• Africa

[euromessage]

Thank you for sharing the original dance with me. It gives some perspective.

[euromessage]

Thank you for sharing the original dance with med. It fives some perspective.

[euromessage]

Sorry, I do not catch the luhya language. But this is dancers from the Tiriki clan dancing on the lawn outside the forest station in Kakamega Rain forest. Arranged for my camera by KEEP

[kenyangangster10]

This is fake,not real.The soloist is not chanting well.The masked people are too old.The crowd should not be seated they should be dancin with the masked people.They usually dont allow people to document this.Their setting is not on a field so this is all wrong,they acted this

[euromessage]

If you read the information text to the right of the picture you get the true facts about the dance. The dancers are my friends, local youths from Kakamega Rainforest. Nobody says it is an inauguration. But it is an inauguration dance. That is quite a difference. They asked me to record this.

[kenyangangster10]

Sorry if i offended you but im just stating facts through experience.What im saying is true,you should consider that maybe they put on a show for you cause this is not how we do it.

[euromessage]

Of course everything is a show, specially in your country, the US. People around this rainforest live in a modern world and are good christians or muslims. But this is a part of the Luhya cultural heritage. The dance is different in every clan and every village. At 18 living in the US you have probably not much personal experiences of Tirriki inaugerations.

Akhayundi shikhacherera lisoko! Follow that advice and you will be a great man.

[r00t0n]

here is the original dance by actual intiate

[packsh1]

This is really great. I visited the KEEP bandas a few months ago and it was my best experience in all of Kenya. Kakamega is beautiful.

[apssy]

I 'm a tiriki from senende who went through this ritual. Though it may not me close to tha real thing nevertheless it reminds me of home. I look forward to taking my son to participate in it and learn his tradition

[chaimoto]

what is with the chainsaw?

[slimsanta1234]

interesting video

[cwall426]

i'm so glad i found this video!! i have seen them do that dance, and i got to do it with them! thank you for sharing this with the world!!