#mapouka

[shantellxxo]

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[nickysfacts]

The traditional origins of twerking!🍑

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[badgyalzdem]

[blackonblackbk]

Twerking is Mapouka. If you are not black or African you are culturally appropriating if you don’t pay homage to that fact. #periodt . Modern day twerking is very similar to Mapouka, a dance from Côte d’Ivoire. From its origin, Mapouka was a celebratory dance for festivals by Africans and was widely accepted because people believed that this dance led to encounters with #God. . BLACK WOMEN/GIRLS CAN NOT BE STIGAMATIZED for practicing what is ACTUALLY CULTURAL for us and white girls get be “sexy” or "desirable” while performing that very same act. . We have to #unapolgetically protect and call out appropriation of our culture. It’s already out of hand. We must not let it become #erasure. We allow so many inches that become miles. . My 4 year old “twerks” and it’s so fucking cute! I couldn’t be more proud that one day I will teach her that that is her legacy and history when she is ready to understand and further embody it. . The dance is so inherent to US. It’s in our DNA. We need to protect our culture. but first we must learn about it. From Wiki: "Historically and currently, similar styles of booty-shaking are found throughout the continent of #Africa as well as the African and Afro-Latin diaspora. Similar styles of dance are known as mapouka Côte d'Ivoire, leumbeul in #Senegal, and other styles can be found in #Tanzania, #Uganda, and #Kenya to name a few. This style of pelvic- and hip-isolated dancing is known as perreo or sandungueo associated with #Reggaeton from the #DominicanRepublic. Twerking can be said to be indirectly linked to African cultural dancing without any direct connections between people from Africa.Twerking like many cultural traditions or expressive dances associated with marginalized groups has become stigmatized in racialized and gendered ways that often associates those who perform the dance—primarily girls and women of color—with deviant behavior." #twerking #mapouka #blackhistory #africandiaspora #itswhoweare #itswhatwedo #africandance #blackonblackbk #blacklivesmatter #blackgirlmagic #magicmagic #blackmagician #wefight #weresist #wewillwin #outfittingtherevolution #deconstructtheconstruct #blackpower #blackpride (at Bedford-Stuyvesant) https://www.instagram.com/p/CE5sKVLFooA/?igshid=c8uaqhlwxysk

[sereialee]

📻 Getting my #Mapouka moves right for the summer 🏖

[mr-eather]

Let me explain. The origins of the “twerking” phenomenon, although not widely admitted, is rooted deeply in an African dance named Mapouka. The American version which is “twerking”, to me, is a LAZY ASS WATERED DOWN VERSION! It lacks soul! Ok, let me try to use an analogy that might work. It’s like eating Mexican food, Caribbean food or French food that’s prepared by someone NOT from these places of origin. While not everyone from the aforementioned places CAN cook, the authenticity from someone who can, just CAN NOT BE DENIED! I’m yet to see “twerking” that truly captivates. So for me, if it’s not Mapouka or a dance from a Caribbean female proficient in such, it doesn’t do much for me.

NB: If you doubt the validity of my claims, BEFORE you step up, RESEARCH and form your OWN opinion.

[mask-knife-is-buggys-wife]

Also a reminder to all that twerking derives from a dance called Mapouka from the Ivory Coast in West Africa. It was a celebratory dance for festivals. And because of colonization that spread christian ideologies it became taboo and on tv it was outright banned.

Now it makes a comeback and is incredibly sexualized. Letting black women reclaim it and what it means for them is important. Whether or not it is sexual for you acknowledging its past but also its celebration of black bodies is important. Bipoc bodies living breathing and dancing when it was banned for us all before is so important.

We dance for those before use and those who couldn't and we dance to feel the roots of who we are