#Wanaragua

Jankunu, Dah soh Boy

[@SharleneA-vs6yd]

We know fu party ❤

[@beastmode7169]

In jamaica and bahamas & it even was practiced in US in the 1800s they do this similar dance goes to show, that we all tha same all over the diaspora only thing thay seperate us is our geographic locations, languages & cultures but we are still african ppl so to speak

[@Ruben55431]

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[@Ruben55431]

This dance is from the Igbo people of Nigeria. Very beautiful.

[@cayecayo4648]

@@Ruben55431 Not at all respectfully. It is from Ghana, but not this version. The real Junkanoo celebrates war victories of Chief Kanu of the Akan in Ghana over the Dutch and celebrated with warrior masks and spears. This dance is imported from.Kriol culture and has nothing to do with Garinagu culture who were never slaves. The dance of the Garinagu is the Habinaha Wanaragua in hinaru or women's face and attire celebrating the mitary use of deception and disguise to defeat the enemy. This dance is neither Junkanoo or Habinaha Wanaragua.

[@eve3363]

I'm sorry but you are incorrect. I believe Jamaican Jonkunu is similar to this but not Bahamian own. Very different and even different costume. Bermuda costume is somewhat similar but different dancing.

[@eve3363]

@@cayecayo4648 Thank you. Just because something looks similar doesn't mean it comes from the same origin. For example, i believe Jamaican Jonkunu is probably more related to this dance as it is a part of their celebration to scare children (of course playfully, not trying to make it sinister at all). Additionally in the Garifuna own, performers may ask for money or rum. I don't believe these attributes are anywhere found in Bahamians and Turks and Caicos Junkanoo nor Bermuda Gooombey.

[@user-sk3zv7fv4d]

I love you guys so sweet you guys have fun and I hope you have some great day Ghost pepper and a friend for quite a bit and we usually

[@darrylwatters5175]

Hello , my name is Kwabena am of Ghanaian Senegalese and Lesotho heritage I was told some of my ancestors are also from Belize who are Garifuna am learning more about the Garifuna right now am trying to get a Belize Citizenship as well . But I was born in the USA to African parents .

[@zeusery9559]

interesting

[@malenedietl3369]

Great, fantastic, know your roots.👍❤️❤️💥

[@dutro44]

❤from California. Thank you! Johnny cakes(:

[@user-em8bw8bv8o]

🎉

[@user-em8bw8bv8o]

Hmmm hehhe

[@SharleneA-vs6yd]

I miss home ,😂

[@bijonzuniga2507]

good

[@JoseMartinez-ch3iw]

Excelente vestuario y un 💯🐚 a cada participante por mantener la cultura viva. EXCELENTE

[@emmanuelcole8818]

Este es Yoruba di Gelede Y Jollay kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5e4hXSulKp6Z5Y

[@luiscerrato-oviedo9947]

Me gustó el baile. Buen trabajo. Por favor no dejen perder nuestras costumbres y tradición. Gracias

[@cayecayo4648]

This dance has nothing to do with Yurumein or the Garinagu. This is a dance of slaves. The Garinagu were never slaves.

[@jenjen1728]

Great to see the little ones taking part of our rich culture. Let’s pass it on from one generation to another so our roots won’t be vanished.

[@cayecayo4648]

Sadly this dance has nothing to do with Garinagu history. This is a slave dance imported from North Carolina. It is neither a real Junkanuu or Habinaha Wabaragua

[@Sleepyghost-zf8qv]

Belize for life

[@tonybarde2572]

Is this is Hopkins? Because I stayed there

[@lordifrit69]

For all the Nigerians trying to claim John Canoe from Jamaica. Go to Belize instead because this looks more like your thing. John Canoe is completely different from this.

[@trennon3394]

Nice dane

[@DanBackslide91]

🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

[@khalanirivero2064]

I do this too

[@emmanuelcole8818]

This is Purely Yoruba culture its called Gelede everything they doing is correct. I'm Yoruba from Sierra Leone and we are there since they dropped off us. God bless your my people and the whole central and south america

[@paisleyprincess7996]

Garifuni also descend from Efiks as well

[@emmanuelcole8818]

@@paisleyprincess7996 wow thats interesting, but Yoruba culture is the more dominant one the culture survived

[@paisleyprincess7996]

@@emmanuelcole8818 actually, many slaves came from the Calabar region, where Nigeria and Cameroon meet. But Yorubas and a lot of other West Africans were brought into the slave fold

[@cosmic246]

This jankunu

[@louterioli5465]

Nope this is wanaragua a garifuna dance get it right

[@cayecayo4648]

The following is from the oral history of the Garinagu as told in association from an article by OFRANEH... "According to Garífuna oral tradition, Barauda, the wife of the legendary Garífuna chief, Satuye, insulted her husband for not “being enough of a man” to avenge the British. The British were invading their communities and burning their cassava fields. She says, “Women, we are going to have to dress as men and fight against the British. Meanwhile, men, you had better dress as women. Because the only thing you do is flee each time the British come near our villages. In response, Satuye developed a strategy whereby Garífuna men disguised themselves in women’s clothing. The British entered the Garífuna towns unprepared, not expecting male resistance. They assumed that only women were at home in the villages. Dressed as women, the male warriors assaulted the British and took the troops off guard. That is how the Garífuna cleverly deceived the British." kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5mnYoigg7umrcU&feature=share

[@auroramerry9387]

I love it

[@roselinehora5208]

Very impressive 💖

[@khalanirivero2064]

I'm not telling lie ider

[@moneymusicent100]

What is the name of the costume and what does it mean ?

[@emmanuelcole8818]

Those are descendant of the Yoruba the culture dance is called GELEDE and all the things they do we do it too. I'm a descendant of Yoruba stocks that was dropped off by the British to my country of birth Sierra Leone. This is very interesting.

[@louterioli5465]

​@@emmanuelcole8818 sorry to say but this is a garifuna dance known as wanaragua in Belize Honduras and Nicaragua🙌🏽

[@user-em8bw8bv8o]

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[@florenciachun3692]

💜💜💜💖

[@JorgeLopez-be2kz]

Esta bien para continuar nuestras cultura

[@cayecayo4648]

Sadly this is Kriol.slave culture, not Garinagu history or culture.

[@louterioli5465]

​@@cayecayo4648lmao dis is garifuna culture

[@yafethyafeth2061]

❤❤❤

[@Narutofam237]

but them ancestors were slaves because them ancestors were Africans the Arawaks and Africans people made the Garinagu

[@paisleyprincess7996]

This is a remnant of the Efik Masquerade from Africa…That guy with the mask

[@javanpetillo8928]

LONG LIVE DI MIGHTY GARIFUNAS PETILLO & GAMBOA

[@cayecayo4648]

Junkanu and Habinaha Wanaragua are mutually exclusive. Junkanu is Ghanian from the early 1700's between 1707/8 to 1724/25 celebrating battle victories of Chief Kanu of the Ahkan over the Dutch and danced with warrior mask and weapons including a bull horned character. The Habinaha Wanaragua is Garinagu from the last war with the British I 1795 to 1797. It is warriors dressed in hinaru or women's face and attire celebrating the oral history of using deception to draw British patrols into a village and ambush. The current use of a white face mockery dance in Belize is neither Junkanu nor Habinaha Wanaragua and the influence comes from the time of slavery in North Carolina. This dance undermines the Garinagu who were never slaves and never mocked the British...they killed them in battle.

[@eve3363]

Wow. Very interesting. I've been hearing about Garifuna for over 10 years. All I read was that they are ancestors of run away slaves mainly from Jamaica

[@cayecayo4648]

Sadly this dance has nothing to do with Garinagu history. This is a slave dance imported from North Carolina. It is neither a real Junkanuu or Habinaha Wabaragua..The Garinagu were never slaves and never mocked the British, they killed them.in battle.

[@emmanuelcole8818]

I'm a descendant of this great bless people called ''Yoruba'' and we called this "GELEDE" ITS NEITHER THOSE NAMES JUNKANU whatever how your spell it is a water down list history mane that's from the Igbo tribe you should watch how the Jamaicans Junkanu dance and blow the whistle repeatedly. We Yoruba people blow whistles but not constantly. If you're really Igbo you should know your dance moves and your costumes, Sound of the whistle etc. In Sierra Leone we are called "CREOLE" AND OUR names was changed to the white man surname but we kept our Yoruba names and culture just like this as soon as I saw this I knew they was my people. Wise up people. THIS IS GELEDE FROM YORUBALAND NIGERIA THOSE ARE MY DISTANT FAMILY. MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS YOUR AND PASS OUR TRADITION TO THE NEXT

[@user-ll5ik3fm6f]

​@@emmanuelcole8818 the slaves taken to the Carolinas are from those parts of Africa. Did everyone go? Nope. Yes the same Africans away from home went to the Caribbean Islands first. The cultures combine and develop an evolving dance specific to the land. The same Creole people are not far from the Carolinas in Louisiana in the USA. Because America is a Christian based nation the Enslaved got Christmas, Boxing day and the first day of the New Year off. Now here in the USA slaves had watch night, they went to church and the drum was band as well as the dances for a period of time. Those slaves would run to freedom.. specific dances was used to communicate what the owners could not understand. So on each land your going to see a difference but most are celebrating on the same day, Today! It's not a fight, this is unity to honor those lives and the dance was a form of freedom and unity in the Diaspora. Peace be with you.

[@louterioli5465]

​@@emmanuelcole8818nope your gelede dance looks completely different I just searched into it

[@cayecayo4648]

What has Jankanu got to do with Garinagu culture? Habinaha wanaragua is Garifuna. Jankanu is kreol. Habinaha wanaragua is danced in hianrou or womens visage of Yurumein and attire and is danced by warriors. This white faced male parody has no signifigance to Garunagu culture or history and is not Habinaha Wanaragua.

[@juanitamoss3413]

EXPLANATION: The "white faced male prodigy" signifies the invasion of the WHITE MAN..... The morale of the cultural dance is that no matter what our problems are with the invaders, we will communicate with each other about what we are experiencing with the consequences of the white invaders, by keeping our tradition, dancing and singing, no matter what the oppressors have imposed on us....... This is true in the lifestyle of the Garifuna speaking communities, we will not let our poverty keep our spirits depressed.... We will remain festive, no matter what is going on in the world or what is happening around us. Stay Positive, Stay Blessed.

[@cayecayo4648]

@@juanitamoss3413 thank you for your reply but that is a created story with all respect and I do not see it representing true history of the Garinagu. A dance in whiteface mockery is done by the weak, this was a parody dance used in North Carolina at Christmas by slaved who would parody their masters during the only time off they were given. The Kalinago warriors, of which Garinagu is derived, fought alongside their white French allies against the British for over 30 years. The Kalinago/Garinagu warriors led by Paramount Chief and General Joseph Chatoyer never mocked the British, they killed them in battle.

[@cayecayo4648]

@@juanitamoss3413 the following is from the oral history of the Garinagu as told in association from an article by OFRANEH... "According to Garífuna oral tradition, Barauda, the wife of the legendary Garífuna chief, Satuye, insulted her husband for not “being enough of a man” to avenge the British. The British were invading their communities and burning their cassava fields. She says, “Women, we are going to have to dress as men and fight against the British. Meanwhile, men, you had better dress as women. Because the only thing you do is flee each time the British come near our villages. In response, Satuye developed a strategy whereby Garífuna men disguised themselves in women’s clothing. The British entered the Garífuna towns unprepared, not expecting male resistance. They assumed that only women were at home in the villages. Dressed as women, the male warriors assaulted the British and took the troops off guard. That is how the Garífuna cleverly deceived the British." kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5mnYoigg7umrcU&feature=share

[@bootbredda2724]

@@cayecayo4648 Yet they live in British and Spanish dominated countries