2 Odd African Cultures And Their Bizarre Practices

Unarguably Respect and Culture are definitely something that you can’t take out from Africans. Those two attribute are very significant to various tribes in Africa. Despite the development, technology advancement, modernity, there are some African customs and traditions that are weird, strange, unusual and you probably didn’t know existed. On 360gistswithayoka today, we’ll be discussing 2 absolutely odd cultural practices in Africa:

1. The Powerful Healing Dance of the San, Southern Africa

How can people believe dancing in a particular way can heal an illness or even heal a negative habit of anybody? What a belief! Unbelievable right? It’s actually believable because it is the religion of the San people from South Africa, Botswana and Namibia. Formerly known as Bushmen. This particular dance is considered to be Sacred Dance. The have leaders called Healers/Elders.

How do they do the dance? The whole community gather around the fire, while the healers dance and make chants till they are granted access to the spirit world. The San people have no other religion, the dance practice is their major religion belief and they still practice it till date. If the dance really could cure illness as they believed, why are we still fighting COVID19 after a year!? Poco lee and Kaffydance could’ve danced Nigeria’s COVID19 way out by now!

2. The Wodaabe Courtship Dance

This is actually a funny one, please take a laugh while you read. Men dressing up, using make up, display, only for women to pick them as husbands. The Fulani’s are known for not settling in a particular place, they are also known for different cultural practices as well. They are found in Chad, Nigeria, Senegal, Niger and Sudan. The Wodaabe Tribe is even a sub-group in the Fulani Tribe, the tribe name is said to mean “People of Taboo”.

So basically there’s an Annual Ritual competition that young men gets to dress up, paint face, gather up in line and dance to get attention of the young women who are eligible for marriage. Also, it’s not just about that, an ideal fine man in this tribe is the one with the bright, shinning face, and teeth. So the men have to always smile and show their white teeth. Strange but sounds cool, kind of 😂

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