EP1 TOGO YOU'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE | DRIVING THROUGH TOGO'S MULTITUDE OF TRADITIONAL SONGS AND DANCES

THE FIVE REGIONS OF TOGO DANCES AND TRADITIONS
#Talkudg, the #moba people traditional dance
Gourmantché tribe dance, prefecture of Kpendjal (East of this savanna region) and also neighbouring Burkina Faso.
Traditional song and dance from the Tchokossi
(#Anufo) people in Mango ( Oti prefecture)
#Kourougnima Dance
Dance of the virgins: initiatory dance, which is performed during ceremonies for young girls of marriageable age. She performs with a calabash that she juggles with both hands to the rhythm of the tom-tom. If the calabash falls from the hands of a girl: it means that she is not a virgin, and this
dishonours the family. It is a dance from North Togo (bassar).
Dance of Fire from the Komkomba tribe, Bassar prefecture.
Tamberma dance from this region
Dance from Sola, #Binah prefecture
#Traditional dance from the Losso people of this
Doufelgou prefecture, capital Niamtougou, Kara region
#Kara #Kabyè tribe #Evala dance and #Wrestling #festival (in july every year).
#Agbandja dance from# AGBEBOU, ASSOLI Prefecture
#Alédjo fault
LOCAL #KOTOKOLI TRIBE TRADITIONAL SONGS AND DANCE ON DISPLAY.
#Agbadza is a genre of performance art that originated among the Ewe people (Ghana, Togo). The drumming features musical interactions between lead and response drums; in songs, poems are set to tunes that have a variety of call-and-response arrangements between several song leaders and a larger choral group.
#GBÈKO DANCE from #Atakpamé #Akposso people.
#GADZO: Danced by men and women, Gadzo is a dance originating from #Gapé, a locality on the borders of the prefectures of Avé and Agou, and ultimately spread throughout the Ewe and Akposso countries of southern Togo. The movements of dances are generally cadenced, loud, rhythmic, and frenetic.
#AGBOGBOZA festival in #NOTSÈ: Historical festival of the Ewe to
celebrate the #exodus of the #Ewe people in XVII AD. It is the largest
traditional festival of the Ewes in Togo.
#Atsia dance is an Ewe recreational dance piece
performed at social events and celebrations.
#Adzifo dance from the Adangbé girls, a village in this #Zio prefecture, near Tsévié
#Zangbeto are the traditional voodoo guardians of the night among the Ogu people of Benin, Togo, and Nigeria.
THE #ADJOGBO DANCE. Dance of the monkeys from the prefectures of Vo and Lakes in TOGO and also in BENIN were invented by hunters, and it has become a popular dance of rejoicing performed during major events.
#Borborbor is a Ghanaian and Togolese traditional dance performed by the Ewe people from the mid-Volta region of Ghana and Southern Togo including Kpalime and Lomé
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