Choreographed Dance from Ghana Choreographed Dance from Ghana
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Video duration: 195 seconds

Awal Alhassan from Sohoyini performs with Alote on Whidbey Island at WICA- March 10, 2007.
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Kpanlogo Solo by Awal Alhassan Kpanlogo Solo by Awal Alhassan
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Video duration: 128 seconds

Awal at the Shoreline Arts Festival 2007. http://awalalhassan. googlepages.com

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Bamaya Solo Bamaya Solo
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Video duration: 67 seconds

Bamaya solo from Dagbon, Ghana. With Awal Alhassan and Zosimili after school dance program. http://awalalhassan. googlepages.com

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Gahu Gahu
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Video duration: 38 seconds

Awal Alhassan leads the Zosimili after school program in a performance of Gahu in Ghana. http://awalalhassan. googlepages.com/

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Dagomba Praise Name Singing Dagomba Praise Name Singing
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Video duration: 74 seconds

The Nanton Naa King's Lunaa drummers sing his history in Nanton in Northern Ghana. The ceremony is because the NantonNaa was giving a palace to another king.
This is an important tradition from before written history- used to communicate history with the entire village. Recorded by Awal Alhassan. http://awalalhassan. googlepages.com

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Bamaya Bamaya
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Video duration: 21 seconds

Awal Alhassan and the Center for National Culture in Tamale. Performing their traditional dance, Bamaya, of the Dagombas in Northern Ghana. http://awalalhassan. googlepages.com

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Bamaya Class Bamaya Class
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Video duration: 30 seconds

Awal Alhassan teaches his native dance, Bamaya, in Seattle at Spectrum Dance Theater. http://awalalhassan. googlepages.com

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Pounding cement for traditional house floor Pounding cement for traditional house floor
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Video duration: 34 seconds

Packing down the cement in the traditional Dagomba way in Tamale, Ghana. Singing and dancing is a part of everyday life here. http://awalalhassan. googlepages.com

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Damba Drumming Damba Drumming
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Video duration: 22 seconds

Damba dance and drumming at an enskinment ceremony in Nanton, Ghana. http://awalalhassan. googlepages.com

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