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Kidumbak + "African Belly Dance" (Part 1)

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Uploaded by on Oct 19, 2007

Culture Musical Club of Zanzibar (Tanzania) performing in Seattle 11/16/2006

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  • Too true.

    It's also strange that people continue to refer to Africa as if it were a country. We don't say European Bagpipes, fries, or kilts?

    Do we?

    But when it's Africa it's one big black mass of contiguous culture unless it's Egyptian, of course.

  • Egyptian bellydance is recognized as the cultural origin & Egypt (as well as other countries such as Tunisia) where bellydance is popular r all African countries. To be more correct this should be Tanzanian "bellydance". There r 53 countries in Africa of which several have strong Arab, Berber & Persian presence. Calling this African bellydance evokes oversimplification & suggests only the countries with higher black population are African. Quite a few North Africans take offence to that.

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  • but with all of the peopl and cultures that got it from Africa First...

    How many dance and sin at the same Time! Do y'thang!

  • Big girls do it better.

    *said the envious skinny girl* ^_^;

    Hey it's difficult for me to gain healthy weight okay. adn fiANYONE Says have some Kids I SWEAR!!! XD

  • yeah I Love the music and the way they are playing it. Never heard a Violin played that way. Were I Just listening and not watching I would've Never even thought it was violins. looks fun though.

    Musicians; dancers you All rock

  • I final understand the trick to ciara's dance moves!! lolz

  • @thotsins YES SIR!.. you seem to be the only one who truly understand this.. and if u look closely at african dances.. They mostly focus on waist, hips and err, the behind area!.. as migration continued and people moved north, they changed it as they go.. its just that arabic bellydance has been very popular in the west and until today many people don't want to credit black people with anything!.. (* tsk tsk, *shakes head*)

  • @OmoOvie TELL HIM!.. plz, this is a lesson to all.. Africa is Africa and let it be Africa.. Don't try to separate it or create divisions among the poeople!.. God Bless the most diverse continent in the world! :)

  • mwanangu hichi kidumbaki mara waazirika mtu mzima

  • La beauté; c'est lafrique quel continent quelles poupulation. L'originalité, la spontaniété. C'est mon continent, je l'aime.

  • It only makes sense that Belly dance comes from the Asiatics. Look at what belly dancing is!!! the moves accentuates the features that of the Moorish Woman! Just like EVERY DANCE AND MUSIC, It was taken away from us. Lets keep it real.

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