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Ceremonial functions could include dance, rituals, story-telling and communication of points of order. Some of the groups of variations of the talking drum among West African ethnic groups: Tama (Wolof of Senegal) Gan gan, Dun Dun (Yoruba of Nigeria and eastern Benin) Dondo (Akan of central Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire)
Wallah, -walla, -wala, or -vala (-wali fem.), is a suffix used in a number of Indo-Aryan languages, like Hindi/Urdu, Gujarati, Bengali or Marathi. It forms an adjectival compound from a noun or an agent noun from a verb. [ 1 ]
Legend has it that Adikpo Songo from Akpagher; Mbatyav in the present day Gboko local government area of Benue State, Nigeria, was the originator of Kwagh-hir.Adikpo Songu, in an interview with Iyorwuese Hagher, a scholar of Kwagh-hir, attempted to corroborate this view held by several kwagh-hir group leaders and notable elders in Tivland.
Mwali (pl: Myali) is a dance accompanying a song usually made to criticize anti-social behaviour: Mwilu is a circumcision dance. The Gusii people use an enormous lute called the obokano and the ground bow, [57] made by digging a large hole in the ground, over which an animal skin is pegged. A small hole is cut into the skin and a single string ...
Assiko: a partner dance which originated with the Bassa people of Cameroon. Kpanlogo: a Ghanaian dance that originated with the Ga people around the 1940s, Kpanlogo is a free-flowing highlife dance form performed to conga-like drums. Kakilambe: a West African ritual dance of uncertain geographical origin involving ropes and a central figure in ...
Igbabonelimhin is an acrobatic, masquerade dance-theatre common with the Esan people of Edo State of Nigeria. The word literally means “clapping for the spirit”. [1] Igbabonelimhin is a compound word for 'Igbabo' which literary means to clap and 'Elimlin' which means Spirit. Conjuctively, it means to clap hands or commune with the spirit.
Etighi is a Nigerian dance. The etighi dance was founded by the Akwa Ibom people.The dance requires movement of the leg and the waist. The dance is known across Nigeria and popularly used by the Ibibio and Efik people where its origin began.
The Igbo people, commonly and often referred to as Ibo people, are one of the largest ethnic groups to ever exist in Africa; they have a total population of about 20 million people. Most people who are a part of this ethnic group are based in the southeastern part of Nigeria, they contribute to about 17 percent of the country's population.