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    Guinea's dirty dancing backlash

    By Alhassan Sillah
    BBC News, Conakry

    Screen grab from Wolosso Azoubaguehi
    Ivory Coast's Wolosso music is all the craze in Conakry
    Men in Guinea's capital have begun attacking women who they accuse of doing the popular buttock-swinging Wolosso dance from Ivory Coast.

    Teenagers wearing skirts or hipsters, associated with Wolosso, which partly expose their buttocks and midriff have been stripped naked and beaten up.

    The attacks follow a performance by an Ivorian Wolosso group last week.

    The provocative dance is considered by many in the mainly Muslim West African country to be pornographic.

    Craze

    The police have confirmed a few cases of alleged rape committed by the rampaging youths and more than 30 men have been detained in connection with the violence.


    Young Guinean girls and African women in general should not dress themselves like European girls
    Conakry resident

    Some girls refuse to go to the Bambeto and Cosa suburbs of the capital, Conakry, for fear of being a target.

    Others have resorted to donning the long traditional wraps to avoid incurring their wrath.

    The craze for Wolosso music and the dress style adopted by fashionable teenagers and women in the capital has become a hot topic of debate.

    "Young Guinean girls and African women in general should not dress themselves like European girls," one man told the BBC.

    One woman decried "this Wolosso business".

    "In a Muslim country like ours, we should not be watching and imitating these music videos. I advise all girls and women to dress themselves in proper clothes."

    A younger woman said that wearing revealing outfits at night was not advisable.

    "But during the day I don't see what the problem should be. Everyone has the right to wear what makes them happy. I'm a young girl - should I be forced to dress in a certain way?"

    Ivorians I have spoken to in Conakry deny that the lyrics themselves are pornographic.

    They claim the music is used as a backing for pirate videos with lewd dances.

    BBC NEWS | Africa | Guinea's dirty dancing backlash
    Has anyone seen or done the Wolosso, even if not in an African Moslem country?


    "Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination."

    I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.

    HAKUNA MATATA

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    The provocative dance is considered by many in the mainly Muslim West African country to be pornographic.
    Sir,
    Could have guessed as much; they seem to have a problem with everything.

    However, this act of intolerance could spark communal strife, since Ivory Coast has a fair share of non-muslims too.
    Muslim 35-40%, indigenous 25-40%, Christian 20-30% (2001)
    https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications...k/geos/iv.html

    Cheers!...on the rocks!!

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    • #3
      Yes, the Moslems in Africa seem to be over clothed as it is!

      Could do with less clothes so that they don't feel too hot all because of the overdose of clothes!


      "Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination."

      I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.

      HAKUNA MATATA

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      • #4
        I wonder what they would have thought about Native American Indians, Their spiritual dances and their worship dances wearing even less clothing.
        Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

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        • #5
          Why don't these jerks, ban belly dancing in the sheikh palaces in the gulf countries;)

          Cheers!...on the rocks!!

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          • #6
            Not banning a thing. If its nice let it shake!
            Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

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