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Rinny
Remember when we highlighted the incredibly talented 30 dancers from Beyonce’s “Formation” in February? Well, we’ve been keeping tabs on these ladies and found dancer, Ahsia Janaé (@fierceninja) breaking the internet with her flawless melanin and bomb dancehall moves.
Watch as Ahsia shows us how it’s done to Drake’s dancehall track “One Dance” (which is currently charting #1 in the US) off his newly released album, “Views.”
https://twitter.com/Fierce_NiNja/status/722816325391749121
https://twitter.com/Fierce_NiNja/status/722815439504416768
If Drake makes a video for “One Dance”, he definitely needs to cast her in it!
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Itumeleng Please stop being so judgemental just because you don’t understand other people’s culture!
And STOP speaking for ALL Africans. I’m from DR Congo and we do dance with our hips and bums. There are over 400 tribes in Congo and quite a lot of us dance with our hips, and shaking our bums. And it’s something we’re learned from our ancestors.
Check MUTWASHI from the LUBA tribe.
Watch this:
I also know that some tribes ‘twerk’ in Tanzania.
Please just stop. Stop stop! And look at this comment from someone else on youtube, which says exactly what I was thinking:
“This is normal in our countries!! Im senegalese and young woman in my native country do dances like this.
We don’t consider it vulgar or anything like that.. can be called chakacha (east africans), mapouka (Ivory Cost), leumbeul ( in Senegal ),or twerk (for african-americans)!!
It’s just westerns who jack off to that, and then tell you it’s wrong because it makes them hard. It’s not our fault if you’re prude or you can’t control yourself.
Proud to be african, it’s my culture, not yours. Do not come here to tell me it’s wrong, fuck what you think and fuck you!!
Look all these beautiful ladies omg, haters gonna hate. Awesome video!”
watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm-2cATEDfc
It’s not a deflection it’s the truth! You put down a culture you don’t understand. Typical African judging like you are better. How are you lumped into this category? Lol This woman is not a stripper! I think you need to relax, the only category I see you in is the typical angry black woman. Get over yourself!
Oh and btw I’m sure your man is watching the twerkers and strippers. LOL
‘bastardized’ has no place in my cultures description
RESPECT before you embarrass yourself further
Ghetto is a place not an adjective sweetheart, you sound foolish smh
Oh my god girl, the more you talk the more separatist and hateful you sound, why do you talk of ‘pitying’ Caribbean and black American culture? Why do you think these cultures are below your culture? What ever did we do to you? To make you feel so?
One I never said anything about Nikki or Rihanna , two you have no authority on the world culture ( only if you lived everywhere, and even if you did you still won’t get a grasp of someones culture) So let me give you some advice keep your ignorant opinions to yourself. Just because you happen to glimpse a Nikki video does not mean you know jack shit about the caribbean. Go educate yourself before you go spouting off dottishness. I love my culture . i love my people this is the way we dance and express ourselves. If you have a problem go live under a rock or close your dam eyes. My caribbean culture is more than those two ,have you heard of Billy Ocean , Heather Headley, Wendy Fitzwilliams , Anya Ayoung Chee that is just to name a few. As I said before keep your ignorant assumptions to yourself. BYE FELICIA!!!!!!!!
Madam, scroll through all my comments and you will see that I speak for my part of Africa, and that is the South, that encompasses at least 7/8 countries. And no we do not dance like that.
Hence my exhaustive debates on this board to distance myself from this vulgar practice. I have also said that these must be dances that evolved from West Africans, who are nothing like us in the South, in culture, looks and language groups. Slaves from West Africa are those who went to the Americas, so in that sense you are all related, just leave the rest of us out of it.
What I find curious is that in South America where I have been I didn’t see this recent phenomenon of twerking and whining.
South American sistas dance in such a fantastic majestic way that is celebrated and respected worldwide. Salsa, tango, cha cha cha, yet you don’t see this disgusting black American and/or Caribbean degenerate types of dancing in their cultures. I can respect the South American sisters. They have some self respect and aren’t trying to defend degenerate behavior as cultural.
I care when black women like you co-sign fuckery of other black women that makes all of us so called ‘melanated'(whatever the hell that means) look bad.
Good luck to you too.
Wow this so out of there for me you need to calm down take a breath. It has so may more important things to QUARREL ABOUT , YOU CHOOSE TO PUT DOWN A FELLOW SISTER DOING HER THING , WHICH IS DANCING!!!!!! FYI I am from Trinidad and Tobago so I speak for West Indians we dance and express ourselves through dance whether you call it wining or twerking. It has a time and place for everything and the time for her to dance like that was at the shoot. You make a big deal out of nothing. Like you are better than the rest of us. You need to go sit down shut up and read something else not this article or any other one on this page. Because all you keep on doing is putting other beautiful women down. Peace out Jah bless.
I am not putting anyone down. I am stating that in my opinion and culture, it is a disgusting way to dance and apparently express yourself as a woman. Have some dignity. Majority of black women in the world wouldn’t dance like this. Just because your Caribbean culture is being brought to the forefront via Nicki Minaj and Rihanna does NOT mean the rest of us regard that way of dancing as ‘dancing’. It is vulgar. Period. Most cultures in the world would agree, from the Arabic world, to Asia to Europe to to most of Africa. Women do NOT behave that way. If you see it as ok and part of your culture then that is sad. No wonder people perceive black women as loose and hyper sexual. You turn a simple dance into a nasty disgusting thing.
I agree with the “leading with the ass first” beauty standard for black women. It is degrading.
Sweetheart, what is “shameful,” as you so eloquently put it, is SUBJECTIVE. You want to put your South African traditional dance up on a pedestal over Carribean & African -American derivatives of traditional dance–but with South African dances’ hip/butt gyrating & breast exposure, someone could argue that THAT’S sexually explicit. So you might want to fall back from being so quick to judge.
Furthermore, how are you questioning someone else’s authority because they don’t agree with you & accusing them of speaking for their whole group—yet in the same breath, you call YOURSELF an authority on S. African culture? Is THAT not trying to speak for your whole group? At the day’s end, you sound real crazy trying to act like your stuff don’t stink just because you don’t agree with a particular form of dancing (or, probably because you can’t do it, lol)…but hey, that’s your opinion & I have mine, so whatever.
Ah you see, I have already said the women of Swaziland and the Zulu have reed dances where the women are topless. But that is because breasts are not sexual things to Africans in the South. When Europeans arrived did they turn the breast, meant to nourish and feed the baby the baby become offensive part of the body to be put away and covered. I am not saying we used to walk around topless, women back then did cover up.
Its not a coincidence that the buttocks are the most sexual part that attracts the male of our race, the bigger the better. Hence to use said sexual part to shake gyrate and hump male crotches, you are turning something vulgar into a dance form and call it acceptable when it is not.
I never said we are perfect in Southern Africa, but are we are flinging our breasts and buttocks into men’s faces and groins and calling it a dance? NO! Our own Sarah Baartman was taken as s lave to Europe to be abused by Europeans and put on display because she had larger than average buttocks. It was inhumane savage and a travesty to our Sarah and us Southern African women. Sarah died in the most shameful heart wrenching ways after being exploited for having the physique she was born with.
To have now black women using that body part to gyrate and shake like strippers, forcing it onto the public and make a mockery of the travesty done to women like Sarah makes me shake my head. But it seems to be ok because apparently, somewhere in West Africa they dance like that so it must be ok.
I am not saying we should hide our rather bigger butts away, but to use that same asset to degrade ourselves by dancing in manners so unbecoming to femininity is NOT the way forward ladies.
When people go to world championships for Salsa, Rumba, Cha cha cha, tango etc, it is widely respected and celebrated. The twerking or whining craze is a low rent occasion relegated to the fringes of modern society. Very ghetto and uncouth. An event that if you beamed to the rest of the world that tunes in to watch black women compete over who shakes their asses the best, well lets say we would have further cemented our reputation as laughing stocks of the world.
” with South African dances’ hip/butt gyrating & breast exposure, someone could argue that THAT’S sexually explicit. So you might want to fall back from being so quick to judge.”
Yes. Exactly. How many countless photos have we seen with black African women from centuries past and present day who were topless. And I have seen photos of South African women from Khosian topless as well. Does she not realize that much of the world would consider this “undignified” and “illegal” and a Westen woman would be jailed for indecent exposure if she did that. Yet she judges what this woman is wearing because she is not African. I see her and the African women showing pride as beautiful. I feel that it was not generally part of the our ancestry as a whole to be shameful of our bodies until the Europeans arrived and were like OMG Becky they are showing their breasts and shaking their hips. As for cultures, which she says have been hijacked but in reality all cultures tend to evolve when exposed to others. I’d bet money her culture is not so “pure” and exactly the same as it was before the white people showed up.
You’re talking rubbish now woman. There is no way you can compare the intrusion of Western people taking photos of Khoisan women in their natural habitat in the Kalahari desert with that of slutty dances of Western black women that INVITE the glare of the media. You see, that is where the reasoning of black women like you borders on childish. Dances like what this woman is doing ia attention whoring in its most extreme form.
The fact that you fail to draw a reasonable parallel comparison of these two scenarios means you can’t contextualize things like a thinking person.
Dismissed!
Wow. Do you live in La La? You are totally clueless if you blame black women in the west for starting the sexualization of black women. That originated there in Africa when white men arrived feeling entitled to whatever they wanted. My comparison was to show no matter WHY a black woman is topless be she Khosian or Jamaican it’s all labeled the same “uncivilized behavior” to those brainswashed by white Western society. Black people have always been portrayed as being loose sexually true or not. And yes it goes for modern day Africans too. Why do you think the Western media wants to talk more about your AIDS problems than anything positive that goes on there? Because they want to say you’re slutty. Your brain is so colonized. You’re so worried on the world thinks black women are slutty because of a dance when we have been sexualized s black women since way before any black American or Caribbean women ever thought about twerking or winning. If you think we have to anything in order to be seen as sexual objects then it’s you who is irrational. Saartjie “Sarah” Baartman ring a bell? An exploited African woman who performed for Europeans. Maybe a little research on how they were raping us back in slavery times. Impregnating us themselves and breeding us out like cattle to black men they referred to as bucks to make more slave babies. And in the US, they were still able to rape us without consequence up until the CRM in the 60s. They have thought of us as just good for sex for centuries with NO TWERKING NEEDED. F%^& that. We have spent too long with our bodies not being our own. If I feel like twerking then dammit I’m twerking. As I said I see nothing wrong with what the dancer is doing. It’s her body and she’s not grinding on some guy although I have seen women modern dancers wrap their legs around men waists. We do some of the same stuff she does in my Zumba class. I personally am glad to see black women owning and taking control of their OWN sexuality rather than being victimized by it. If that makes you mad then freaking stay mad. Bye. I hope you enjoy your time in La La.
DAMN!!!
and PLEASE calling someone “out of the loop” when you’re still pushing bllshite stereotypes about black Americans? http://racerelations.about.com/od/diversitymatters/a/Four-Myths-About-Black-Marriage.htm
“By analyzing census data Toldson and Marks found that 83 percent of married black men who earned at least $100,000 annually got hitched to black women. The same is the case for educated black men of all incomes. Eighty-five percent of black male college graduates married black women. Generally, 88 percent of married black men (no matter their income or educational background) have black wives.”
“Toldson and Marks found that 75 percent of black women marry before they turn age 35 after examining census data from 2005 to 2009.”
DON’T BUY INTO THE BLLSHITE
I’ve definitely seen plenty of music videos with african people twerking… I don’t know if you’re lying, in denial, if I’m just misunderstanding what you’re saying (are you talking about a specific part of Africa?), or if you simply don’t know what’s going on in your own continent… I saw Femi Kuti live a while back in Brooklyn and not only were his dancers dancing and wining in a sexual way (and half-naked), but he straight up told the audience about how African people were comfortable with being sexually expressive with their dance from a young age. Twerking and wining – all those types of dances have roots in Africa… The videos are out there with African people doing these moves, better than us mind you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdtKbq3Omkw&ab_channel=I%27mreallytallandskinny
Madam I have already explained to you above that your black American and Caribbean culture comes from West Africa, which is fine. But how come descendants of other West Africans ie in South America don’t have these cultures ways of dancing? I’m just wondering.
Yes I made it clear that in Southern Africa and East Africa, this twerking nonsense does not exist. I have many friends from East Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea etc and no they don’t twerk. Where I am from, South Africa, Botswana lesotho, Namibia, Malawi, Angola, Swaziland, Zimbabwe Zambia, Mozambique etc etc you get the picture, they don’t twerk like American blacks and Caribbeans.
Recent videos of Africans imitating this craze does NOT count. They are not dancing the way they do in their cultures. They just want to jump on this twerking craze and drive traffic to their channels, who knows.
If you are saying there is and has never been a sensual component to any traditional African dances I don’t believe you. I performed in a belly dance troupe for years. We did several types of bd. I saw belly dancers when I visited North Africa and some of the moves my group did was similar to this woman. Is someone likeShakira dancing with bells jiggling across her ass which is part of her culture also shameful? Probably not because she’s not black. I know what the woman in the video is doing is not easy. Not just any old body can do this. Her dances is an art that takes great control, skill, technique and rehersal that you have to make look graceful and effortless. Just because something is sensual doesn’t mean it can’t be art. They can coexist. And not every dance Westerners do is sensual. In the US at least we have long loved group dances like Whip, Cupid Shuffle, Wobble, Electric Slide, Hustle, Soul Train Line. We like to have fun. Yeah I would dance like that lady in front of my mom. She’s not a prude.
Ok well note that North Africa is not the real Africa, those women are Arab, NOT black. If anything they are part Arab and part Black. Besides belly dancing is a more respected form of dancing.Its also common throughout the Middle East and India.
Its sensual without the slutty looking ‘twerking’ or bouncing one’s rump like an animal on heat. I would sign up for a belly dancing class. That is an art form that teaches one to move one’s waist in measured and sensual ways that require great skill. They are great for trimming the waist.
Now compare that with the coarse and vulgar ‘twerking’ and well, ask the rest of the world which is vulgar and which race that is associated with and you will have your answer. Black chicks.
I am embarrassed to be associated with that. That in any space where there is music, people are expecting me to drop it like its hot or some such bullshit. Degenerate American and Caribbean dancing that should be banned.
There is ballroom dancing, salsa, cha cha, now these are dances that may have roots in Africa, I would be happier to be associated with those. Now that s sensual, and sexy without being downright slutty.
And you wonder why black women get no respect, we can’t even dance without being associated with dancing that resemble a mating call of animals LOL
slay me queen
AMAZING.
the only thing that you need to understand is wining is the correct spelling not whining.. understand the meaning and look it up. whining is making a crying sound. wining a word used in Caribbean dialect, is the ability to wine.. or gyrate or twirl your body in a rotating and sexually suggestive fashion. Too many people, even some Caribbean people, spell the word wrong. But now you know. Please change your title to “wining”
wish I could vote this up a million times! I was seriously wondering what issues she was having to whine about!
Her movements have millennia-old roots in African culture, please don’t get that twisted with this current, simplified pseudo-MTV mess that’s been appropriated by wypipo all of a sudden. To each her own, but I don’t see anything wrong with her self-expression… as a matter of fact, she’s dam GOOD at it & her body is amazing–she’s my new fitness inspiration!
Miley Cyrus will try this and fail or they’ll do a class on it..lol
Too late–she already failed miserably & didn’t even realize it, LOL
Yet another twerker or ‘whiner’. I swear that is the only thing that black women are known for nowadays. Its really unbecoming. Black women complain about stereotypes about being hyper-sexualized but they are the first ones in skimpy outfits behaving like strippers.
Shameful.
ALL over the place……Instagram, Facebook, Periscope….the list goes on and onnn
Exactly. Its all over, even in photos, black women are posing ass first. Black women have always been great, I have no idea where this trend to lead with the ass first comes from. I just don’t get it. Its time for black women who oppose this nonsense to speak up.
I couldn’t have said it better, thank you.
Glad we’re on the same page 🙂
In the midst of all the black girl magic in the air (especially recently) and you really fixed your face to say that’s all we are known for? Last time I checked black women/girls have been getting into Ivy Leagues, breaking records in the music industry, redefining limiting beauty ideals, being the fastest growing population of small business owners, among like a million other things… oh and we can whine and twerk! So what?! Twerking or not twerking doesn’t make you better than anyone. Also the woman is dancer, so she’s dancing. You sound so basic.
Yes!!! I’m so happy for all of them! Did you hear about the 11 yr old with her lemonade? It’s going to be sold at select wholefoods for now.
When did our CULTURE become stripper like, dear? Don’t believe the hype. Our people were dancing like this centuries before it became a trend and much longer before it started being associated with sex. Get to know your culture and heritage and do some research on where these dances and the costumes originate. These dances were ritualistic and celebratory, now people want to label it as slutty and unbecoming. Re-evaluate why that is.
Look, I am Southern African, no one, especially a Westerner can lecture me on what ritualistic African dances are. Then again Africa is a vast continent, we are not a monolith. Having said that though, in my culture it would be considered ‘slutty’, the gyrating etc. Its undignified and indeed unbecoming for a woman to do that. We do dance in a way that includes our hips and butts, but I feel that the African American ‘twerking’ or Caribbean ‘whining’ is extremely slutty way for a woman to dance. Likewise the dancehall dance where women gyrate against a man’s crotch. Sorry, I find that revolting. Its traditionally African dances that have been hijacked and like African languages, its been bastardized into a Western form that bears no resemblance to the original.
Do your people dance in such a manner in front of adults? The Swazis and Zulus have reed dances where the girls are usually topless in front of the king, but my goodness, there is none of this vulgar simulated sex acts that pass as ‘dancing’.
I just feel that there are more dignified ways that black woman can and should dance. No one dances better than a black man or woman. I just feel like after twerking or whining, what next black people? Are we going to up the ante by going completely nude when twerking alone fails to thrill??
Goodness!!
When ever you state “no one, especially a westerner can lecture me” it is in poor taste for you to put down someone in that way. Are you saying you are more knowledgeable about the entire continent of Africa because you are from there?
As you said, in your culture it would be considered “slutty” but that is just your culture, not other African cultures. And honestly, if you want to speak for every single person in your culture, by all means try and catch yourself looking foolish.
For many cultures such as hatian, jamaican and many african cultures, hip movement and gyrating is a part of the dance style used. This form of dance is also seen in many african cultures because guess where the ancestors of Caribbeaners and Black Americans were from? Africa. Instead of looking at our dances through a eurocentric lens try looking at it through a more cultured lens of the people who created these dances.
It is all about the culture.
You have nerve saying that you are more knowledgeable about an entire continent when you are no more knowledgeable then the average person that has not done there own research. Humble yourself.
You contradict yourself all over the place I hardly know where to start. On one hand you acknowledge that I am indeed African and have authority on what I speak,( and that is large parts of Southern Africa ie Botswana South Africa Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Zambia) On another I am viewing it through a Eurocentric lens? Make up your mind.
In a poor attempt to refute my point, do you speak for all Caribbeans yourself? Or all African cultures? You do NOT. I am African born and raised and have stated factually that we do not dance in a sexualized way. Dancing is an art form, yes we use our hips and butts to express the dance routines beautifully, but not in provocative whorish ways where we bump our rumps into men’s crotches in simulated sex acts or gyrating like a stripper. Do Caribbeans dance this way in front of their parents and children? If so then wow how putrid!! Have some self respect. I don’t care if its a part of your culture or not, its attention seeking whoredom.
Its especially worse when outsiders think its in all black women’s culture because it is NOT. I hate to be lumped in with this ‘dance’ if you could even call it that. I distance myself from it as far as I can go because it has made us black women look like jokes. We are bent over on videos doing nothing but shaking butts. Its so vulgar. When you see a black woman come on a video you know the next position she will assume is bent over! We have become nothing but giant buttocks with arms and legs attached.
Caribbeans we taken as slaves from West Africa, and like West African languages, they evolved their dances into a poor imitation of the original.
What’s funny is that the same dances and butts you want to be known for are being hijacked by other races, Kim K, Iggy Azalea, Amber Rose et al and they are taking your men and getting rich and famous LOL whilst large percentages of African American women and Caribbean women remain single twerking and wining to eternity and being back up dancers to lily white Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift who punk you in their videos. Yes Amber is half Cape Verdean but that chick does not look black.
You are seriously out of the loop its tragic to read LOL
If you care that much of what “outsiders” (what ever that means) think of you, you have far more work to do within yourself then you realize. And, I would like to be known for far more then my sexy butt, my melanted skin and my beauty… above everything I want to be known for uplifting my people and using my brains for the better.
Good luck to you.
Well said!
You might want to humble your own self by reading what I said before. I have said that yes we use our hips to dance and sway with our waists etc, and I have never denied it has roots in Africa.
Where we disagree is where Africans bend over to shake their rump invitingly like an animal waiting to be mounted by another. Also the simulated sex acts of gyrating on a man’s crotch is indeed a vulgar Caribbean thing. Its disgusting, and uncouth. Of course y’all come from Africa, but like your patois languages that have roots in African languages, they are a bastardized version of the real thing. You have modified it so become nothing like the original.
I am saying that some of us do NOT want to be associated with that because it is a coarse unbecoming way for a woman to act, let alone dance. But it seems to be accepted, hence we continue to be a joke to other cultures. Why don’t South American blacks dance this way? The sistas over there are amazing dancers, but they are not bending over to expose their rumps and shake them.
The Globeleza dance competition in Brazil features dancing derived in African roots, but hmm those sistas are not twerking like Americans and Caribbeans. As an African I can watch it and enjoy it because its true talent and and an expression of carefully measured ways of dancing. It takes great skill and technique to pull off those moves. That is dancing I respect wholeheartedly. Parents the world over from Asia to Europe can watch and not feel those black women are disgusting. But put on Caribbeans desperately humping their men, bending over with the sole purpose of moving the rump only and engaging little else but the rump, well dear, its embarrassing. Very ghetto and low rent. And you call that dancing? HAHAHA 😀
She’s a professional dancer! What the heck is wrong with you. If she were white you wouldn’t open your mouth or move a thumb. How can’t you see she’s apparently working? You don’t know where her talent can take her! Apparently it seems far.
I agree. Would she say the same thing if they were white women?I’ve seen plenty of white women on Youtube dancing worse than this and with barely any clothes on!!!
And that’s the problem with black people. You deflect the issue and constantly talk about whites. I don’t give a rat’s ass about what white women do, but I do give a damn about women who look like me who I am then lumped into the same category as. And that is rump shaking stripper types or twerkers. I distance myself because I care about my image and what I am associated with. Pity you don’t.
As much as i agree to your sentiment where online it is done for sexual attention…. regards to african dancing… how many african countries have you been to? I am an african and I have been to 20.
I can tell you the igbo and and okrika dances to name a few have shaking of buttocks as the main dance, initially I was uncomfortable with it when I attended a ceremony being I am south african too and we do not do it, however I found they take pride in their cultures and do not see it sexually and it is the norm.
Maybe speak on the south african dances and dont speak for africa.
You mentioned the carribbean islands are full of slaves from Africa… you forgot its mainly north africa and that is where the dancing comes from. When you go to those countries and see first hand in a rural village how they dance… please return and tell us how in “your africa” they dont do what you deem provocative.
FYI the professional dancer in the video is actually doing a very african dance. when she wines down to her knees… they have a version of that in Zimbabwe which you apparently are speaking for under southern africa. Also as for shaking buttocks ask a zimbabwean about “kusendekera” and what that involves, they had a national advert with a man and woman doing the dance.
I am not a professional on Africa by any stretch of the imagination, Some african countries have 50 languages in one country…. and you speak for all African dancing? Ok. kudos.
As much as i agree to your sentiment where online it is done for sexual attention…. regards to african dancing… how many african countries have you been to? I am an african and I have been to 20.
I can tell you the igbo and and okrika dances to name a few have shaking of buttocks as the main dance, initially I was uncomfortable with it when I attended a ceremony being I am south african too and we do not do it, however I found they take pride in their cultures and do not see it sexually and it is the norm.
Maybe speak on the south african dances and dont speak for africa.
When you go to those countries and see first hand in a rural village how they dance… please return and tell us how in “your africa” they dont do what you deem provocative.
FYI the professional dancer in the video is actually doing a very african dance. when she wines down to her knees… they have a version of that in Zimbabwe which you apparently are speaking for under southern africa. Also as for shaking buttocks ask a zimbabwean about “kusendekera” and what that involves, they had a national advert with a man and woman doing the dance.
I am not a professional on Africa by any stretch of the imagination, Some african countries have 50 languages in one country…. and you speak for all African dancing? Ok. kudos.
Like strippers ?? Don’t you know that “whining” is in the Caribbean/African culture ? Know black culture better and acknowledge the difference between it and how “white” culture see it.
Check yourself. She is not on the street twerking on some random guy. She is obviously a trained dancer on a photo shoot of sorts.
Stevie wonder could see the professional dancer is at work. Some ppl are beyond irritating… She just wanted to be negative. How can’t she see that ppl appreciate and celebrate such beautiful rich culture. It was tastefully done..
#TELLUSWHYOUMADTHO
How can you ignore the hypersexualized white women seen in media daily? Watch YouTube and you will see these Russian twerk videos, millions of views! These women are dressed like whores!!! This woman is clearly on a photoshoot and shes dancing. Why does that make you uncomfortable? African people like you are always ready to put down other cultures, especially other black cultures! SHAME ON YOU!!
but what exactly is wrong with it? stop slut shaming because she’s proud of showing her body. there is nothing wrong with people who dress modestly and there is nothing wrong with people who dress with lesser clothing.
Just because you are African does not mean you can dictate all blacks culture. Wining does have a rich history in the caribs, and every island has a different way of doing it. This is the culture of the blacks in the caribs, and just as much as we can respect your culture as a South African, you should respect ours. In our culture being ‘topless in front of the King’ as the zulu’s do is found to be inappropriate. Do we call Zulu women slutty just because its slutty to OUR standards? No. Because we realise the cultural significance it has to them.
Second, it is her body, and she does with it what she wants, when she wants it. Do you know how many men she slept with? Do you know her life? No. Then you cannot judge her based on a dance she does, or how she dresses and say that she is ‘slutty’. As far as I know, her worth is not found solely in her body, so she can’t demean herself by her body, her worth doesn’t attach to her skin, so her worth isn’t determined by how she uses it.
I just couldn’t help but say something as its so ridiculously harmful to women when they don’t empower the free choice of another woman to do as she pleases without being slutshamed. Men have been demeaning us for our own choices enough.
Lastly; if this one dance video affects your worth as a black woman, then maybe you should reframe what your ‘worth’ means to yourself.