Is niiko really a bantu dance?

[Rocktheboat]

Everyone on here says niiko is a bantu dance and that southern somalis picked it up from them or is this a cover up because y'all too ashamed to admit that somalis made this dance

 

[pirater]

yes. I think. It looks super similar to other bantu dances which focus around hip movements

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

It's deffo Bantu and was picked up by some Somalis who live near them.

 

[Mr Sufi]

It's deffo Bantu and was picked up by some Somalis who live near them.

But I ain't mad

 

[Mr Sufi]

Mapouka is a West African booty shake and baikoko is a Tanzanian ass shake dance. The bantus of somalia thought Somali women of the south to dance for their husbands to sexually please them.

 

[Muktar]

It's obviously a Bantu dance. Somali Bantus were most likely the ones who brought it over to southern Somalia hence why its mainly practiced there. Somalis & most other Cushites use the upper body to dance (dhaanto, eskista, buraanbur, etc) whilst Somali Bantus & most other West Africans/Bantus use the lower body (booty, hip movements, twerking, etc) to dance.

↑ This is the most likely reason where Niiko came from, no other way around it imo.

 

[Empress of Hawiye]

ITS A BANTU DANCE!!!

 

[Apollo]

Ethiopians, Eritreans, and Djiboutians don't do this.

Likely through contact with the Swahili sphere did this practice entered Somalis.