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Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part I of a two part pancocojams series on Beninese, West African singer/songwriter Angelique Kidjo's 1996 song "Wombo Lombo".

Part I showcases two videos of "Wombo Lombo": the official YouTube video of that 1996 song and a 2007 video of the version of "Wombo Lombo" that Angelique Kidjo performed on the American children's television series Jack's Big Big Music Show.

Part I also includes "Wombo Lombo"s lyrics as well as some information and comments about that song.

Part II of this pancocojams series compiles some comments from Africans and other persons writing on two YouTube video discussion threads about their childhood memories of watching Angelique Kidjo sing "Wombo Lombo" on Jack's Big Big Music Show.

Part II of this pancocojams post also presents some comments from Africans and other persons writing on YouTube discussion threads about other memories of the song "Wombo Lombo" when they were children, teens, or young adults.

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The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Angelique Kidjo and Jean Hebrail for composing this song and thanks to Angelique Kidjo for her musical legacy. Thanks to all those who are featured in these videos and all those who are quoted in this post. Thanks also to all the publishers of these videos on YouTube.

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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE:
I'm an African American who has no memory of the song "Wombo Lombo" and just became acquainted with that song three days ago after happening upon Yemi Alade's 2020 song "Shekere" (as a fortuitous result of a YouTube recommendation.). The song "Shekere" by Nigerian singer Yemi Alade and Beninese Republic singer Angelique Kidjo is partially a remix of Kidjo's 1996 "Wombo Lombo" song. "Shekere" has quickly become a viral hit with 1,264,710 views in four days [as of 9:18 PM on February 9, 2020]. At least some people-including me- who watched that "Shekere" video sought out YouTube versions of the original song "Wombo Lombo" and any online information that could be found about that song. Some people also watched at least the official video for "Wombo Lombo", if not the Jack's Big Music Show video because Angelique Kidjo had recently won her fourth World Music Grammy (in January 2020). As it turns out, one of the other people who were nominated for that award, Nigeria's Burna Boy, is a huge fan of Angelique Kidjo and had recorded a remix of Kidjo's "Wombo Lombo as a bonus track on his 2013 debut album L.I.F.E..** Undoubtedly, Burna Boy's record "" led some people to Angelique Kidjo's original "Wombo Lombo" song. And there are other covers/remixes of Kidjo's "Wombo Lombo" song on YouTube.

My search for information and examples resulted in this pancocojams series.

I should also mention that I had heard of Angelique Kidjo before she won her latest Grammy Award for World music [January 2020] and I had fallen in love with Angelique Kidjo's song "Agolo"* in the 1990s, after hearing it somewhere and taping it for my personal enjoyment. However, it wasn't until today that I actually knew what that song's title was or that Angelique Kidjo was the one who sang that song.

* Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlgESq5FAx4 for a video of Angelique Kidjo's song "Agolo".

** Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af11CpjX9aE for the official 2013 video of Burna Boy's "Wombolombo".

*** Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwoV1-ykm9E for a video of "Shekere" by Yemi Alade, featuring Angelique Kidjo. I plan to publish a series of pancocojams posts about the song "Shekere". The link to the first post in that series will be included here.

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SHOWCASE VIDEOS
Video #1:Angelique Kidjo - "Wombo Lombo"

Angelique Kidjo, Jul 1, 2014

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Statistics as of February 9, 2020 at 9:50 PM
total views -1,065,946
total likes-12 k
total dislikes- 204
total comments- 1,252

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Video #2: Wombo Lombo song [Jack’s Big Music Show]

titusXpullo, Apr 11, 2012
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Statistics as of February 9, 2020 at 10:28 PM
total views- 405,029
total likes-431
total dislikes- 95
The comment feature has been turned off

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Here's some information about Jack's Big Music Show from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%27s_Big_Music_Show
"Jack's Big Music Show is an American musical children's television series originally aired on Noggin on September 12, 2005, to April 1, 2008. The show was produced by Spiffy Pictures, and was nominated for a 2008 Emmy award for Outstanding Pre-school Television Series.

The popularity of the show made the idea of appearing on it attractive to musicians. An executive from Nick Jr. in 2006 said that they were "clamoring to get onto Jack's Big Music Show."[1]

In May 2007, production was cancelled and it was announced that no new episodes would be produced. The last episode aired on April 1, 2008. However, it reran on Nick Jr. until early 2013.”...
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Here's some information about the episode that Angelique Kidjo appeared on and performed her song "Wombo Lombo":
From https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0961771/soundtrack
"Jack's Big Music Show (TV Series)
Jack Bunny (2007)
Soundtracks
Soundtrack Credits
Mel the Musical Magical Magician
Performed by Jack's Big Music Show

Magic Box
Music and Lyrics by Laurie Berkner
Performed by The Laurie Berkner Band with Susie Lampert and Adam Bernstein

Run After Bugle Bunny
Performed by The Schwartzman Quartet

Wombo Lombo
Music and Lyrics by Angélique Kidjo and Jean Hebrail
Performed by Angélique Kidjo

The Hop
Performed by Jack's Big Music Show featuring Anne Harris"

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COMMENTS ABOUT ANGELIQUE KIDJO'S SONG "WOMBO LOMBO": The language used in this song

[Additions and corrections are welcome.]

From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyMDHccQhzo [discussion thread for the video given above as #1.

[Numbers are added for referencing purposes only].

Pebbles, 2016
1. "Is she speaking Yòrubá?!!! Anyone help or am I hearing similar dialect?"

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REPLY
2. Patently Mosh, 2016
"She's obviously singing in Yoruba. Her mother is Yoruba of Benenoise origin. The entire concept of the song is founded on Yoruba folklore. This is the same for her song ''Agolo''."

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3. Doctor Black, 2016
"Yes, most of her songs a combinations of yoruba and fon languages. her mother is a proper yoruba descent and her father a tribal Fon speaker."

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4. Per A.J. Andersson, 2017
"She sings both in Fon (father tongue), Yoruba (mother tongue), French and English. I'm not an expert in Fon though, nor in Yoruba, and Google Translate is of no help…"

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5. Ayeni TonyOpe, 2020
"Her father is Fon and her mother is Yoruba (of Dahomey dialect, the Beninese Yoruba). She sings in both languages and so many other languages.
She has so many songs in Yoruba but not as smooth as Nigerian Yoruba possibly influenced by her French, fon and other local dialects.
You should listen to this her song, "Olofofo", deep deep Yoruba lyric."

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LYRICS: WOMBO LOMBO
"(Wombo Lombo" as written by and J. Hebrail Angelique Kidjo")

Gbogbo ènyan n' so houn kpé onindjo kan m'bè
Niboni mon léri ènikan odamin lohoun
Ilé onindjo wa lègbè odo
Inou gbèrèko oman tou oko akpèdja
Have you ever seen this man moving ?
Do you think anyone else can do it ?
Really this dance has got something,
Something, no way you can't beat it.

Wombo lombo
Wombo lombo
Wombo lombo
Wombo lombo

Gbogbo ènyan n'so kpé onindjo kan m'bè
Niboni mon léri ènikan odamin lohoun
Ilé onindjo wa lègbè odo
Inou gbèrèko oman tou oko akpèdja
Have you ever seen this man moving ?
Do you think anyone else can do it ?
Really this dance has got something,
Something, no way you can't beat it.

Ho ham ham ho ham
Yélélé ho ham ham ho ham
Ho ham ham ho ham
Yélélé ho ham ham ho ham

Wombo lombo
Wombo lombo
Wombo lombo
Wombo lombo

Have you ever seen this man moving ?
Do you think anyone else can do it ?
Really this dance has got something,
Something, no way you can't beat it.

Wombo lombo
Wombo lombo"

Source: https://genius.com/Angelique-kidjo-wombo-lombo-lyrics

Information from that website:

"Wombo Lombo is the 2nd song off of Kidjo’s album, Fifa. Kidjo appeared on Jack’s Big Music Show to perform the song."
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Note that J. Hebrail is Jean Hebrail, Angelique Kidjo's husband and song writing partner. Jean Hebrail is a (White) French man.

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GOOGLE TRANSLATE RESULTS FOR THE FIRST VERSE OF ANGELIQUE KIDJO'S "WOMBO LOMBO"
[These results may not be accurate. Additions and corrections are very welcome.]

Google translate- Yoruba to English
"Everyone is preparing a party
Here I know what one is
Our hotel is by the river
Inou gets you a fishing boat"
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There were no Yoruba results for other non-English portions of this song.

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This concludes Part I of this two part pancocojams series.

Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part II of a two part pancocojams series on Beninese, West African singer/songwriter Angelique Kidjo's 1996 song "Wombo Lombo".

Part II presents a small compilation of comments from Africans and other persons writing on two YouTube video discussion threads and one other website about their childhood memories of watching Angelique Kidjo sing "Wombo Lombo" on Jack's Big Big Music Show.

Part II of this pancocojams post also presents some comments from Africans and other persons writing on YouTube discussion threads about other memories of the song "Wombo Lombo" when they were children, teens, or young adults.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/02/1996-video-of-angelique-kidjos-song.html for Part I of this series. Part I showcases two videos of "Wombo Lombo": the official YouTube video of that 1996 song and a 2007 video of the version of "Wombo Lombo" that Angelique Kidjo performed on the American children's television series Jack's Big Big Music Show.

Part I also includes "Wombo Lombo"s lyrics as well as some information and comments about that song.

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The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Angelique Kidjo and Jean Hebrail for composing this song and thanks to Angelique Kidjo for her musical legacy. Thanks to all those who are featured in these videos and all those who are quoted in this post. Thanks also to all the publishers of these videos on YouTube.

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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE:[This same note is also found in Part I of this series.]
I'm an African American who has no memory of the song "Wombo Lombo" and just became acquainted with that song three days ago after happening upon Yemi Alade's 2020 song "Shekere" (as a fortuitous result of a YouTube recommendation.). The song "Shekere" by Nigerian singer Yemi Alade and Beninese Republic singer Angelique Kidjo is partially a remix of Kidjo's 1996 "Wombo Lombo" song. "Shekere" has quickly become a viral hit with 1,264,710 views in four days [as of 9:18 PM on February 9, 2020]. At least some people-including me- who watched that "Shekere" video sought out YouTube versions of the original song "Wombo Lombo" and any online information that could be found about that song. Some people also watched at least the official video for "Wombo Lombo", if not the Jack's Big Music Show video because Angelique Kidjo had recently won her fourth World Music Grammy (in January 2020). As it turns out, one of the other people who were nominated for that award, Nigeria's Burna Boy, is a huge fan of Angelique Kidjo and had recorded a remix of Kidjo's "Wombo Lombo as a bonus track on his 2013 debut album L.I.F.E..** Undoubtedly, Burna Boy's record "" led some people to Angelique Kidjo's original "Wombo Lombo" song. And there are other covers/remixes of Kidjo's "Wombo Lombo" song on YouTube.

My search for information and examples resulted in this pancocojams series.

I should also mention that I had heard of Angelique Kidjo before she won her latest Grammy Award for World music [January 2020] and I had fallen in love with Angelique Kidjo's song "Agolo"* in the 1990s, after hearing it somewhere and taping it for my personal enjoyment. However, it wasn't until today that I actually knew what that song's title was or that Angelique Kidjo was the one who sang that song.

* Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlgESq5FAx4 for a video of Angelique Kidjo's song "Agolo".

** Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af11CpjX9aE for the official 2013 video of Burna Boy's "Wombolombo".

*** Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwoV1-ykm9E for a video of "Shekere" by Yemi Alade, featuring Angelique Kidjo. I plan to publish a series of pancocojams posts about the song "Shekere". The link to the first post in that series will be included here.

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SOME AFRICANS' AND SOME OTHER PEOPLE'S MEMORIES OF ANGELIQUE KIDJO'S SONG "WOMBO LOMBO" SONG FROM THEIR CHILDHOOD, TEENAGE, OR YOUNG ADULT YEARS

This compilation is only a sample of similar comments that I found online. Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.

A.
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyMDHccQhzo Angelique Kidjo - "Wombo Lombo"
Published by Angelique Kidjo Jul 1, 2014 [The video given as #1 in Part I of this pancocojams series.]

1. Elizabeth Mirembe, 2014
"When I was in nursery school, we danced to this song as part of our class presentation for the concert :) :)"
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Another commenter shared that this commenter is Ugandan.

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2. Onye wuchi, 2015
"Was very shock to see my primary school best song"

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3. Rita So Sweet, 2015
"I LISTENED TO THIS SONG IN MY CAR YESTERDAY!!! IF I HADN'T WATCHED JACK'S BIG MUSIC SHOW THAN I WOULDN'T HAVE NEVER KNOWN THIS SONG EXISTED! THANK U NICK JR! 😄😄 AMAZING SONG!"

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4. coilygurl, 2015
"I became an Angelique fan as a kid when this video used to come on BET! I still love it! If only I knew all of the words!!"

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REPLY
5. SootheSayinYaySayer, 2016
"this was on BET?"
-sniphttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BET
From "Black Entertainment Television (BET) is an American pay television channel that is part of the ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks unit of ViacomCBS. It is the most prominent television network targeting African American audiences"...

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6. Elizabeth O'Brien, 2016
"Rodrick Edmund Brown I 1st saw this on Jack's Big Music Show, a childrens' music program, and I've loved her since! Beautiful, makes me feel amazing... regardless that I do not understand all of the lyrics. The music, her voice & the overall beauty of the dance, dress & feel, just feels good. ❤"

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7. Brendan Power, 2017
"Shout out to my dad who played this to me as a young kid growing up in rural Ireland. Funny to look back on the words I would invent to fit the Yoruba part :)"

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8. Ladyflo, 2018
"Please take me back to 1996 to ghana when i was 7. I want to listen to this again with the other kids from our block, run around in the DIRT and scrape my knee, eat real natural cultural food and get excited when we went out for chips or fried rice haha, watch tv programmes from peoples windows who could afford satellite tv, play under the moon during power cuts, catch up on acapulco bay, esmeralda, aladdin and by the fireside, climb almond trees, blow soap bubbles from the soapy water someone used when they did their washing by hand etc #Luckytobeafricanandborninafrica"

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9. Nana Akwesi, 2018
"😭 I love this song! It has always been my favorite... I think Fan milk Ghana 🇬🇭 used it to advertise their products when i was young! Its a beautiful song!"

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10. Spn Nangolo, 2018
"Stil a hit in 2019 was probly 6 when it made ma ears come for the 1st time..MUCH LUV FROM NAMIBIA"

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11. Munie Balkyz, 2018
"I was 6yrs in 1997 and I had a friend called Yabbe, so this song made happy because I always thought that she was singing about my friend when she said si yabe"

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12. The ofcourse TV, 2018
"I will be 27 years in 2 weeks. When I was 12, I usually hear radio stations play this song and it puts me in a very good mood😀😀,, like it makes my travel so far in a chilly peaceful zone. I love you "Africa!!

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13. Erin Threlkeld, 2019
"First heard this in the movie Sahara. One of the few good things to come from that B movie"
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There are several movies with the title "Sahara". I'm not sure which movie this commenter (and others) referred to.

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14. Muchinah Mungai, 2019
"So it's Wombo Lombo and not 'wamarabo'.That's how me and many other kids from Central Kenya used to sing the chorus."

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15. Rufai Sarki, 2020

"You need to be 17yrs old in 1996 to enjoy this song better, I was 😍 We partied well"

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16. voice of Africa1, 2020
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"This song made my child hood, I never knew she was African, it was the same period with Patra, and late Brenda Fassie"

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17. voice of Africa1, 2020
"This song made my child hood, I never knew she was African, it was the same period with Patra, and late Brenda Fassie"

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18. Seun Akioye, 2020
"I refuse to see my Angelique as Mama, she was my crush as a teenager."

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19. Kolawole Babatunde, 2020
"Proud of African Nigeria. I swear can't do without listening to this beautiful music when I was a little boy back in Nigeria on our black and white television, God bless Nigeria, 2020 still banging on my head right now"

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B. From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hcwTNWXGDA Angelique Kidjo - Wombo Lombo
Raymond Beck Dec 12, 2011 [sound file]

1. ogounlurker, 2011
"remembering this on BET when it had some flava!!!!! 90's"

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2. UGottaKnowThis, 2013
"I heard this song on Jack Big Music Show while watching it with my son. The video is fun to watch. It always gets my foot tapping to the beat. Wait.... I think I'm going to get up and dance! LOL Peace"

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3. Tamson Jack, 2013
"Aw, I'm feeling so nostalgic, I used to love this as a kid. So happy I found it again :)"

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4. Half-Blood Prince, 2016
"6 years old, my mom ironing my dads shirt for work, and I'm dancing in the corner. 24 now, I'll forever love this song."

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C. From https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858646191/ Sunday, August 15, 2010
ANGELIQUE KIDJO AFRICANA SPECIAL
Blogger- Unknown
"This is a song from my childhood "Wombo Lombo". It was a pleasant surprise to see it on 'Nick Jr' recently. Oh wow! how the world has become globalized? All thanks to new media.”...

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This concludes Part II of this pancocojams series.

Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part I of a two part pancocojams series that showcases Yemi Alade's and Angelique Kidjo's 2020 song "Shekere".

This post presents the official YouTube video of that song along with the song's lyrics, and a few general comments from that video's discussion thread. The definition of "shekere" is also included in this post.

Part II showcases the official video of Yemi Alade's and Angelique Kidjo's 2020 song "Shekere" and includes nation signing in and other comments from numerous African nations.

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The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Angelique Kidjo and Yemi Alade for their musical legacies. Thanks to all those who are featured in and are otherwise associated with this video. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publisher of this video on YouTube.

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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE:
I'm an African American who has no memory of the song "Wombo Lombo" and just became acquainted with that song three days ago after happening upon Yemi Alade's & Angelique Kidjo's 2020 song "Shekere" (as a fortuitous result of a YouTube recommendation). The song "Shekere" by Nigerian singer Yemi Alade and Beninese Republic singer Angelique Kidjo is a remix of Kidjo's 1996 "Wombo Lombo" song. "Shekere" has quickly become a viral hit with 1,342,898 views in five days [as of 12:05 PM on February 10, 2020]. At least some people-including me- who watched that "Shekere" video sought out YouTube versions of the original song "Wombo Lombo" and any online information that could be found about that song.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/02/1996-video-of-angelique-kidjos-song.html for a pancocojams post about Angelique Kidjo's song "Wombo Lombofor a pancocojams post about Angelique Kidjo's song "Wombo Lombo".

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Yemi Alade, Angelique Kidjo - Shekere (Official Video)

Yemi Alade, Premiered Feb 5, 2020

Effyzzie Music Group presents the official video for "SHEKERE" by African superstar Yemi Alade featuring African legend and Grammy award winner Angelique Kidjo.

The track "Shekere" is from the "Woman Of Steel" album.
Video directed by Ovie Etseyatse.

(C) 2020 Effyzzie Music Group
#YemiAlade #AngeliqueKidjo #Shekere

SHEKER[E] LYRICS

Yemi Alade oooooo

I dey hear the sound of a Tamborine oooooo
Talking drums and shekere combination

Wombo lombo

I see people under the tarpaulin oooo

Wombolombo

Dancing I guess there’s a celebration

Angelique

Mama wa loko loko
lègbè odo
baba ti shére lo
Im the only one at home

All I want to do now is dance wombo lombo
So I locked up and keep kokoro la be kondo

Waka enter where the gbedu dey happen ooh yaaay
Come see small pikin ati Arugbo dey dance

Bo lombo,
Wombo lombo

Wombo lombo
Wombo lombo

lègbè odo,
Wombo lombo

Mi ori, ènikan odamin lohoun
Wombo lombo

Gbogbo ènyan n'so kpÃ onindjo kan m'bè
Niboni mon lÃri ènikan odamin lohoun
IlÃ onindjo wa lègbè odo
Inou gbèrèko oman tou oko akpèdja

Mama wa loko loko
lègbè odo
baba ti shére lo
Im the only one at home

All I want to do now is dance wombo lombo
So I locked up and keep kokoro la be kondo

Waka enter where the gbedu dey happen ooh yaaay
Come see small pikin ati Arugbo dey dance

Bo lombo,
Wombo lombo

Wombo lombo
Wombo lombo

lègbè odo,
Wombo lombo

Mi ori, ènikan odamin lohoun
Wombo lombo

I dey hear the sound of a Tamborine oooooo
Talking drums and shekere combination
I see people under the tarpaulin oooo
Dancing I guess there’s a celebration

Dance Wombo Lombo
Lombo lombo
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Video statistics as of February 10, 2020 at 12:12 PM
total # of views - 1,342,898
total # of likes - 74K
total # of dislikes - 688
total # of comments - 6,642

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DEFINITION OF THE WORD "SHEKERE"

"Shekere" is the English language spelling of the Yoruba word "sèkèrè" [sounds like the English word "shake"+ "ah" + "ray"). "

Here's a definition for "sekere" from https://www.yourdictionary.com/sekere
"Sekere
Noun
(plural sekeres)

A musical instrument consisting of a gourd surrounded by a net of beads.
The sekere may be twisted, shaken or slapped to produce a subtle variety of effects.

Origin
From Yoruba.

See also: sèkèrè"

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A FEW GENERAL COMMENTS FROM THE DISCUSSION THREAD FOR THIS EMBEDDED VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwoV1-ykm9E

All of these comments were published on that video's discussion thread between February 5 and Feb 10, 2020.

Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.

1. Sherry Jackson
"Two African powerhouses in one video. Chills.."

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2. Ibiri Ka mbiri
"OUR CULTURE OUR HERITAGE OUR LIFE🙏🙏❤❤❤"

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3. Adeniyi Adeleye
"What a combo:
East (Jump dance from the Masai in 🇰🇪 and 🇹🇿),
West (language, dressing and contemporary dance from 🇳🇬 and 🇧🇯),
South (vosho kick dance from 🇿🇦) and
North (throne, court and dressing like Cleopatra and the Pharaohs of 🇪🇬)."

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4. Lucie Nodjilem
"The beauty of this song is the diversity displayed through wearing (eastern Africa esp. Kenya) while both singers are from West Africa(one a french speaking and the other anglophone)...Africa land of diversity <3

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5. Veronica Okomi
"I love how colorful the video is. Celebration of East and West Africa. Nigeria, Kenya, Benin Republic. Much love to our auntie, our Sheroe, Aunt Angelique Kidjo. Well done Yemi."

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6. Geoffrey Embasa
"Perfectly African both in sound and appearance.No more imitating or idolising western patterns"

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7. Sonia Edem
"Angelique Kidjo's voice gives me goosebumps !!
This is a good fusion of Yemi Alade "tambourine" and Kidjo's wombolombo song.

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8. Fatima Cisse
"Perfect song for black history month 🌍👏🏽❤️"

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9. Okafor Nnamdi
"Africa is more than a continent, it's a way of life, it's a culture and it's being shown to the entire world.
We embrace our culture.
Great job Yemi and Angelique 💥💥💥"

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10. chelly bell
"This is why I love Yemi. She is all for Pan-Africanism ✊🏾."

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11. Obi ossas
"I love how she trys to unite Africans through music"

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12. nassirou emmanuel
"Long live African Unity"

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13. Goshen Carmel
"I hope they turn that intro and outro part into a song. I felt it in my soul.
Great song by Yemi and Angelique"

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REPLY
14. fade1283
"it feels more like an ancestral invocation than just a basic intro/outro"

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15. Pelumi Olugbenga
"This song took me back to my roots! Africa Stand Up!!!!!!"

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16. Robert Sunday
"Hit like if this song reminds you of Yvonne Chaka Chaka and Brenda fassie days. Shekere tune 🎶❤️🔥 very classic song."

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17. Bella Bukuru
"This song sample WOMBO LOMBO which is a MASTERPIECE by Angelique! She’s a Legend!!"

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18. Ose Emma
"When our parents says; my child never forget who you are and where you come from,this is exactly what they met,thank you our beautiful queens."

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19. forche Clinton
"this song is 🔥🔥🔥🔥 tho i dont understand what they are saying"

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20. Julie
"Don't understand a word but love everything about the video...."

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This concludes Part I of this two part pancocojams series.

Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part II of a two part pancocojams series that showcases Yemi Alade's and Angelique Kidjo's 2020 song "Shekere".

Part II showcases the official video of Yemi Alade's and Angelique Kidjo's 2020 song "Shekere" and includes nation signing in and other comments from numerous African nations.

Part II also includes a portion of an April 19, 2019 pancocojams editor's note that I wrote about "nation singing in" comments on certain YouTube discussion threads.

Click for Part I of this series. Part I presents the official YouTube video of that song along with the song's lyrics, and a few general comments from that video's discussion thread. The definition of "shekere" is also included in that post.

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The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Angelique Kidjo and Yemi Alade for their musical legacies. Thanks to all those who are featured in and are otherwise associated with this video. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publisher of this video on YouTube.

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Yemi Alade, Angelique Kidjo - Shekere (Official Video)

Yemi Alade, Premiered Feb 5, 2020

Effyzzie Music Group presents the official video for "SHEKERE" by African superstar Yemi Alade featuring African legend and Grammy award winner Angelique Kidjo.

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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
from http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/04/examples-of-nation-signing-in-comments.htmlExamples Of "Nation Signing In" Comments From The Discussion Thread For Wizkid's Nigerian Afrobeats Song "Soco"

"THE CUSTOM OF "NATION SIGNING IN" ON DISCUSSION THREADS FOR CERTAIN YOUTUBE MUSIC VIDEOS [latest revision- January 23, 2020 7:34 PM ET]
"Nation signing in" (nsi) is my term for the writing custom on certain YouTube music/dance discussion threads in which a person represents [reps] his or her nation/region by writing his or her nation's name, country code top-level domain [initials], country [telephone] code (iso) etc. with or without any other text or emojis (small digital images or icons).

These "nation signing in" comments serve as "shout outs" (brief public acknowledgements/greetings and/or praises) for a particular song and/or singer/s. These comments document the global reach of a particular song, singer/s, and particular musical genres by serving as a "roll-call" of the nations (and sometimes also from ethnic groups, language groups, cities/states etc.) that know this song/singer and are enthusiastic about this song/singer.

Many of these "nation signing in" comments are very much like the "best wishes" ending for a letter, card, or other written correspondence, as many nsi comments only or mostly consist of the statement "Much love" + [nation name] or "One love" + [nation name]. These nation signing in comments are also similar to the custom of signing a guest book at a formal event, except for the additional note before the person's name. Another reason why commenters may write their nation's name and/or other group identifiers is to inform others that that song is known and very well received in their nation."...
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With only a few exceptions, the discussion thread for the official video of Yemi Alade's and Angelique Kidjo's "Shekere" has multiple comments from people representing a particular African nation. It was quite difficult selecting only one comment from each nation, but I persevered :o)

There also are LOTS of comments in that discussion thread from people outside of Africa, including people from the Caribbean (particularly Haiti), the USA, Canada, Italy, South America, the United Kingdom, Germany, China, and India.

I'm focusing on comments from the continent of Africa to highlight how songs from one African nation (and collaborations between singers from two African nations as is the case here) are often readily embraced by people throughout Africa, regardless of whether people understand the language or languages that is/are used in that song.

All of the comments in this compilation are from Feb 5 through Feb 10, 2020 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwoV1-ykm9E [The video embedded in this pancocojams post.] Comments are numbered consecutively for referencing purposes only.

Google translate results for English translation for comments that weren't written in English are given under those comments.

Please alert me to any comments in this discussion thread from African nations that aren't included in this compilation. Thanks in advance.

A, B
1. Virginia's Tv
"I love u yemi 😍 all loves from algeria 😁💞💕🇩🇿🇩🇿"

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2. Antonio NGUMA
"Proud to be Africain....love from ANGOLA 🇦🇴"

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3. Gaf GAF
"Juste vous dire merci car vous faites la fierté non seulement du Bénin mais de l'Afrique"
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"Just say thank you because you are the pride not only of Benin but of Africa"

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4. Kaze Ella
"Any Burundian here ??❤️❤️Go Queens"

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C, D
5. Alida Madida
"c'est l'Afrique qui gagne depuis le 237 🇨🇲 vient 👇👍🤗😍😘😘"
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"Africa has won since 237 🇨🇲 comes 👇👍🤗😍😘😘"
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"CM" is the country code [abbreviation] for Cameroon; "237" is the international telephone code for the Cameroon.

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6. Aftahia Ahamadi
"Je suis de comores mais j'aime"
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French to English = "I’m from the Comoros but I like "

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7. Genny Lee
"I tear up when I listened to this song. I started missing my mother and my homeland 🇨🇮. This African blood is something. So proud to african/ ivorian. Miss Angelique voice gave me goosebumps. Yemi sista we see you ❤❤❤"
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This comment is from Côte d'Ivoire (the Ivory Coast).

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8. yves Massangu
"The song is most definitely fiiiiiiire!!!!!! However that intro and outro maaaaan Africa in all her grandeur right there!!!!! Well done Yemi & Angelique.🔥🔥🔥 DRC in the buildin 🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩"
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"DRC" = Democratic Republic of the Congo; "CD" is the internet country code for the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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E, F
9. Emad Rashad
"Africa ya love you yemi from egypt beg fans from Egypt keep going ❤️♥️💓🌹🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬"
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"EG" = Egypt

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10. Abdullah Algabarty
"I am Ethiopian, but I feel that belonging to West Africa more I feel that they are the best who represents our African continent with all my love and appreciation to my African brothers. I hope from God this year will be the beginning of the disappearance of worry, sadness, poverty, diseases and wars, and the beginning of a new era of civilization, development, peace and love ❤️❤️❤️❤️"
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This comment was written in reply to the command/request for all those from outside of Nigeria to "let me see your likes for these two African Queens".

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G, H
11. Moutsig Megwani
"Le Gabon aime o!!! 👌😍 venez confirmez"
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French to English = "Gabon likes where !!! 👌😍 come confirm"

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12. Kaddy Ps Sanneh
"Ooh yes I agree💖 and am from Gambia💋 Africa my mother land❣"
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This was written in response to this comment by nysflo efe:
"Africa my africa the land of kings and queens... the land were civilization began! a continent striped off its tradition, believes, resources and much more yet they still glow.. unbreakable, always finding ways to climb back up the ladder.. the time is NOW.. Africa take back your place in the WORLD...💪💪💪
CLICK LIKE IF U ARE A PROUD AFRICAN!"

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13. niiamartey antonio
"Angelique Kidjo has a really powerful voice. Years have passed by... i am all grown .. but i remember the early 90's watching her on TV in Ghana . The surprising thing is that she gets better and better even in her old age. GOD BLESS HER . She is indeed an inspiration to the younger African generation and Also YEMI ALADE ..... Thanks for continuing to push Africa to the world. with Love From GHANA."

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14. YUZACIFE
"I'm from GUINEA and you ?"

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15. Juelma Martins
"Yemi alade god bless you queen.🙏 From guiné Bissau 🇬🇼🇬🇼"

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I, J

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K, L
16. ESTHER NYOKABI
"Eiiish the Queens have delivered everything is on fire🔥🔥🔥🔥. Shout out to Kenya🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪 we've been represented well well🇰🇪... Shout out to Afrika❤️"
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KE = Kenya

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17. Matenneh Dukuly
"My favorite artist....watching from Liberia😍"

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M,N
18. Valiente Chiquita
"From Madagascar 🇲🇬🇲🇬"
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This comment was written in reply to the command/request for all those from outside of Nigeria to "let me see your likes for these two African Queens".

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19. yasmine rezki
"First time I come across this video , and I am already a fan .
Greeting from morocco ❤️❤️"

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20. Uzna Malunga
"Mozambique here 🍃🍃"

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21. HighlyFavoured
"Its refreshing see a young African star teaming up with one of our greatest African legends. Well done Yemi you continue to show your humbleness and great appreciation for the motherland. You are a true African star, its artists like you that truely represent Africa the right way. Your authenticity will always make you shine very bright wherever you go.
Mama Angelique you have paved the way for our young stars. They are because of legends like you. I bow down to you, much love and respect all the way from Namibia
#BeautifulRendition #BeautifulCollabo"

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22. Anthony Azomz
"Chai, yemi Nwannem! The video is so colorful and refreshing! I've been playing this song since it came out last year. I knew you weren't going to disappoint with the video! Congratulations darling 😍😍 God bless you Angelique kidjo! She kept aging like an old wine🤩😍 Loads of love from pH Nigeria 🥰 😍🥰💕"💞 💝

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S, T
23. Ásio Conceição
"I listen from São Tomé and Príncipe, I love Yemi Alade and beautful participation of Angelique Kidjo"

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24. Khady Fall
"From Sénégal 🇸🇳 west Africa I’m so proud to my continent the colors the culture and the beautiful people big up Africa and God bless us amen 🤲🤲🤲"

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25. Pretty ikramita
"Am somalian i love african music am proud to be African"

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26. Sidepocket XhosaLite
"Much love from South Africa my sister Yemi and mama Angelique.."

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27. Nubian Kushite
"Masai tribe is similar to my South Sudanese 🇸🇸 Dinka, Nuer, and the Shilluk tribes. We are Nilotic people. I love it!!! I love my rich African culture 🇰🇪 🇳🇪 00:45 that sound is beautiful"

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28. Alaa LoOsHi
"حبيييييتها ياخ تحياتي من السودان😍💃💃"
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Arabic to English = "My love, my greetings, from Sudan"

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29. Eric Katabarwa
"Wamaasai wako wapi jamani. Love from Tanzania 🇹🇿"
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Swahili to English: "Where are the Maasai guys?"

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30. Hans Darilson
"Le Tchad 🇷🇴 est aussi présent 👌❤"
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French to English: "Chad 🇷🇴 is also present 👌❤"

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U, V
31. Ssemambo Abdulatif Kareem
"I love u so much from the Pearl of Africa Uganda 🇺🇬, ur the voice of Africa #YemiAlade with the queen #AngeliqueKidjo . Thanks for bringing up the African vibe . I love it ."

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Y, Z
32. Jane Kapandula
"Africa to the world. Love everything about this song. #zambia"

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33. murandakadzi Tokoda
"Blacks dnt crack still looking good zimbabwe loves u ladies......"

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ADDENDUM: COMMENTS FROM MUTIPLE AFRICAN COUNTRIES, AFRICAN REGION, OR ETHNIC GROUP
1. Tidiane Diallo
"Where are the (fulani peulh hallpoular ) pepell"

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2. toujours Afrique ou rien
"C'est Afrique qui gagner toujours cote d'Ivoire la Guinée Nigeria Niger Togo Sénégal bénin Angola Rwanda
It is Africa which always wins Ivory Coast Guinea Nigeria Niger Togo Senegal Benin Angola Rwanda"

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3. veronicah milanoi
"Representing my culture. Proud to be a maasai from kenya"

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4. Alias YACOUBOU
"J’espère qu’il y’a aussi mes frères du Togo 🇹🇬, du Bénin 🇧🇯 et du Nigéria 🇳🇬 qui aiment cette belle mélodie comme moi. ❤️❤️❤️"
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French to English: "I hope there are also my brothers from Togo 🇹🇬, Benin 🇧🇯 and Nigeria 🇳🇬 who love this beautiful melody like me. ❤️"

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5. Se Naika
"Omg this is how we starting Black History month. My ancestors 🙆🏾‍♀‍🇳🇬 🇬🇭"
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NG= Nigeria; GH= Ghana

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6. ssifou sikiratou
"Suis du Nigeria née au Togo réside au bénin . je kiff grave la chanson"
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French to English: "Am from Nigeria born in Togo lives in Benin. I like the song"

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7. Donald Ntsama
"Notre Afrique😭😭❤️❤️"

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This concludes Part II of this pancocojams series.

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancoocjams post showcases a video about a how Deaf people experience music.

This video focuses on Shaheem Sanchez, an African American man who is a Deaf dancer and instructor with his own method of feeling music's vibrations to learn a song.

This post also features a few comments from this video's discussion thread.

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The content of this post is presented for cultural and educational purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Shaheem and all those who are featured in and/or are associated with this video. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to AJ+ for publishing this video series on YouTube.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO: How Do Deaf People Experience Music? | AJ+

AJ+, Nov 27, 2018

Shaheem Sanchez is a Deaf dancer and instructor with his own method of feeling music's vibrations to learn a song.

Want more? Check out this similar video from AJ+: https://youtu.be/2h-MSbMrvNw

"#DeafMusic #MusicforDeafPeople #DeafDancing

Watch Part 1: https://youtu.be/2h-MSbMrvNw
Watch Part 2: https://youtu.be/9Rkctxo_LQI
Watch Part 4: https://youtu.be/0YcGev7B5AA

It's a common misconception that Deaf people can't enjoy music. But there's actually a whole community of Deaf dancers and sign language music interpreters. Shaheem is also an instructor at ASL Music Camp, which is making music more accessible to the Deaf community.

Transcript available in the comments.*

Archival photos courtesy of Shaheem Sanchez.
Music tracks courtesy of APM and Audio Networks.
Special thanks: Justin Kirk, Hugo Lopez, ASL Music Camp, Melissa Elmira Yingst

Note: When "deaf" is capitalized as "Deaf," it's referencing the Deaf community, an important and empowering distinction to those in the community."...
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*The transcript that is found in this video's discussion thread is actually the transcript for Part I of this series. That same incorrect transcript is also found in the discussion thread for the other video of Shaheem Sanchez that whose link is given in this embedded video's summary.

I wrote to these video's publisher (on Feb. 12, 2020) to inform them of this mix-up. Hopefully, the correct transcript/s will be uploaded for these videos. If so, I will add that transcript to this pancocojams post.

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SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THIS VIDEO'S DISCUSSION THREAD
(with numbers added for referencing purposes only.
1. Sandy Germain, 2018
"Love this video very inspiring! We need more off this beauty in our world."

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2. Underrated Art, 2018
"Made me realize how much I take my hearing for granted. Thank you for sharing his perspective."

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3. Nikki, 2018
"The production on this is great! You guys did a phenomenal job :)"

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4. Eugene Fisher, 2018
"I'd love to learn sign language"

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5. POLM PHOTO, 2018
"Awesome video. Great information and great stories"

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6. Melissa Mitchell, 2019
"I la la love this video and this guys great energy vibes! I shared this on my Facebook so some people understand how I’m trying to explain n this is how I memorized the beats and I dance to it!! ❤️"

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7. Chickity Chick, 2020
"Very educational and appreciated. ❤️"

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This pancocojams post showcases three online articles about Black ASL (American Sign Language).

The content of this post is presented for cultural and educational purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/02/how-do-deaf-people-experience-music.html for a video example of Black ASL. Other pancocojams posts that feature Black ASL can be found by clicking that tag below this post.

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ARTICLE EXCERPT #1
From https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/a-deaf-linguist-explores-black-american-sign-language/33817'A Deaf Linguist Explores Black American Sign Language' by Heidi Landecker, January 9, 2014
"Joseph Hill, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, believes he is the only black, deaf, Ph.D. linguist in America, and maybe in the world.

[...]

Many hearing people think sign language is universal, but it is not. [Dr. Joseph] Hill, who was born deaf, studied in Italy on a Fulbright and speaks Italian, as well as ASL, Italian SL, and Black ASL. American Sign Language developed based on the French sign language that Thomas Gallaudet learned from Clerc, so American and French signers understand one another better than British and American signers do, for example.

Hill is one of four authors of The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL, a 2011 book that explores the differences between Black American Sign Language and the ASL of whites in America. The differences are significant enough that black deaf students who went to segregated schools couldn’t understand white teachers and classmates when the schools integrated. The researchers created a filmed corpus of conversational vernacular Black ASL as it is used in the South, and the book examines some of those differences, which include disparate gestures for some words, such as “deer” and “have,” and whether words are signed with one hand or two.

But Hill, who is a member of the specialized-education-services department at the Greensboro campus and directs its ASL teacher-licensing program, says there are many more research opportunities, including chronicling changes in Black ASL as its signers have more contact with white signers, and with spoken African-American Vernacular English. He told us about the Black ASL Project, which seeks the recollections of people who went to black schools for the deaf. Much more is to be learned about the schools themselves. And his own research has only begun to look at lexical variations between ASL and Black ASL—the different signs for the same word—and at what linguists call “prosody” in sign, the use of facial expressions, eye and head movement, and other physical behaviors.

“Black signers tend to be more theatrical,” he said later via telephone, using a video relay service and an ASL interpreter to take the call. White signers, especially older people, may sign in a smaller space because they were taught to be discreet."...
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Here are two comments from this article's discussion thread:
nyhist, 2013
"A fascinating book about another version of a separate sign language that might have contributed to the creation of ASL (many of its practitioners were among the students at the Hartford school) is Nora Groce, Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language, about the hereditary deaf community of Chilmark, Mass."

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[REPLY]
Unemployed_Northeastern, 2013
"Indeed. Though the article disabuses me of this notion, when I saw this link on CHE's homepage, my initial line of thought was that there is a separate sign language developed on Martha's Vineyard (Chilmark), and one of the first vacation spots for African Americans, going back to the late 1800's, was also on the Vineyard (Oak Bluffs), so I was wondering if the two strands - Vineyard ASL and Black ASL - had any common ancestry. But it would seem that the latter was developed in the south as a consequence of Jim Crow laws barring children from all receiving an equal education."...

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ARTICLE EXCERPT #2
From https://splinternews.com/asl-and-black-asl-yes-theres-a-difference-1793840928
ASL and Black ASL: Yes, There's a Difference
by Amy Stretten, 2/25/14
..."Code-switching involves moving freely between two different languages or dialects of a single language. For many people of color, especially mixed-race and multi-cultural people, code-switching is natural and happens in speech without much thought–if any at all.

The same can be said about Sheena Cobb, 29. Cobb uses both ‘mainstream’ American Sign Language (ASL) and Black ASL depending on who she is with.

“I've used mainstream ASL because a lot of people in the community use it, she said through a video-phone interpreter system called VRS. "When I'm with black deaf people, then we usually, naturally revert to Black ASL."

... Dr. Carolyn McCaskill, professor of ASL and Deaf Studies at Gallaudet, a federally chartered private university for the deaf and hard of hearing located in Washington, D.C., has called this type of switch cultural and linguistic code-switching.

But the act of code-switching, at least among the black deaf is nothing new. Phrases like “what’s up” and “my bad” are signed differently in Black ASL, which tends to be more expressive in nature than mainstream ASL.

A common misconception is that sign language is a universal language. It is not. In fact, there are more than 200 distinct sign languages around the world.

According to Dr. Joseph Hill, assistant professor in the Professions of Deafness Programs at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, language variation happens for two reasons: social factors (such as age, gender, race and socio-economics) and geographical factors (such as whether someone is from the North or the South). So, it would be impossible for there to be one universal sign language.

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Because "black deaf people have been exposed to the same social elements that black hearing people enjoy and practice in their communities, it makes sense that there are elements of black culture that appear in Black ASL such as religious practice, cooking, humor, musical entertainment, clothing, hairstyles, words and phrases that typically used in the black communities, and protections against racism," said Dr. Hill in an e-mail.

People who use Black ASL tend to sign with two hands, in different positions, in a larger signing space and with more repetition than with mainstream ASL signs.

[...]

According to Dr. Hill, there exists some bias against Black ASL among the deaf, just like there is against Ebonics among hearing people."...
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This article includes a video of Dr. Hill signing with Black ASL and Dr. McCaskill signing with Black ASL.

Dr. Joseph Hill and Dr. Carolyn McCaskill are African American.

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ARTICLE EXCERPT #3
From https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/08/gallaudet-franklin-jones-carolyn-mccaskill/536949/
‘We Have 14 Black Deaf Americans With Ph.D.s—14’
"A conversation with a deaf-studies professor and a student she’s been supporting throughout his academic career"
by B.R.J. O'DONNELL, AUGUST 16, 2017
"In many ways, Gallaudet University looks like any other liberal-arts college in America: Brick buildings and leafy walkways are abundant on its campus in Washington, D.C. But at Gallaudet, American Sign Language (ASL) is the lingua franca, and creating space for deaf culture a main priority. Walking to class, students sign in rapid-fire bursts of kinetic language.

Franklin Jones Jr. is one of those students. Though he is thriving now—having gotten his undergraduate degree and now attending graduate school at the university—his path has been a difficult one. In fact, Franklin wasn’t sure college was for him at all. But Dr. Carolyn McCaskill, a professor of deaf studies at Gallaudet who researches the history and structure of black ASL, worked with Franklin to make sure he reached graduation. Not only did he do that, but he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in ASL, linguistics, and deaf studies, and he was selected to deliver remarks at his graduation ceremony.

For The Atlantic’s series on mentorship, “On The Shoulders Of Giants,” I spoke with Jones Jr. and McCaskill about their bond, the experience of being black and deaf in America, and how mentorship can promote inclusion.

B.R.J. O’Donnell: Can you talk about what black ASL is particularly well-suited to capturing and communicating?

Carolyn McCaskill: You know how some people may talk loud? I sign loud. So that's one of the features—a larger signing space. Two-handed signing is also one of the features. In mainstream ASL, someone might just sign with one hand, but in black ASL, two-handed signs are also okay. And then there is repetition. If you sign, “I’m getting out of here,” you will sign it not just once, but twice—you might even sign it three times, for emphasis and also for clarification purposes. So we incorporate our culture from black English in our signing."...

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Most of this post is a re-print of a June 2015 pancocojams post.

That post traces the saying "The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice" from its inclusion in African American Thomas W. Talley's 1922 book Negro Folk Rhymes: Wise & Otherwise to Kendrick Lamar's 2015 Hip Hop record that has that saying as its title.

I've added a comment to that 2015 post that suggests that the lyrics "Melanin too dark to throw her shade" can be considered an updated version of (or at least quite similar in sentiment) to the saying "The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice".

The content of this post is presented for historical, sociological, and cultural purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.

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TIMELINE FOR THE USE OF "THE BLACKER THE BERRY, THE SWEETER THE JUICE" AS A BOOK TITLE AND IN SONGS
These are the examples that I'm aware of. I'd appreciate information about any other examples.

1922 - Thomas W. Talley, editor Negro Folk Rhymes: Wise & Otherwise
YOU LOVE YOUR GIRL
You loves yō' gal?
Well, I loves mine.
Yō' gal hain't common?
Well, my gal's fine.
I loves my gal,
She hain't no goose—
Blacker 'an blackberries,
Sweeter 'an juice.

[p. 95]http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27195/27195-h/27195-h.htm#Page_93"Negro Folk Songs, Wise And Otherwise"; Gutenberg electronic edition. This collection of rhymes was originally published in 1922.
Explanation:
"Yo gal hain't common/Well, my gal's fine." = Your girlfriend isn't plain. Well, my girlfriend looks good [too]."

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1929 - [novel] The Blacker The Berry by Wallace Thurman
From http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/868440.The_Blacker_the_Berry_
The Blacker the Berry...
"One of the most widely read and controversial works of the Harlem Renaissance, The Blacker the Berry...was the first novel to openly explore prejudice within the Black community. This pioneering novel found a way beyond the bondage of Blackness in American life to a new meaning in truth and beauty.

Emma Lou Brown's dark complexion is a source of sorrow and humiliation -- not only to herself, but to her lighter-skinned family and friends and to the white community of Boise, Idaho, her home-town. As a young woman, Emma travels to New York's Harlem, hoping to find a safe haven in the Black Mecca of the 1920s. Wallace Thurman re-creates this legendary time and place in rich detail, describing Emma's visits to nightclubs and dance halls and house-rent parties, her sex life and her catastrophic love affairs, her dreams and her disillusions -- and the momentous decision she makes in order to survive.

A lost classic of Black American literature, The Blacker the Berry...is a compelling portrait of the destructive depth of racial bias in this country."

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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blacker_the_Berry
..."Variations in skin tone has historically related to European and Native American ancestry among African Americans, and the tangled history of slave societies, and benefits that some mixed-race children received from white fathers.* The topic of behavior related to differing skin tones has since been treated by other artists and writers, and the issue of skin bias has been studied as a sociological and psychological issue among academics.[2]

Despite the calls for Black Power and "Black is beautiful" in the mid-twentieth century, studies have found that skin tone bias continues. It is more openly discussed, studied and, at times, mocked.[2] The director Spike Lee has explored this topic, particularly in his film School Daze (1988), about students at a prestigious college (modeled on Spelman College and Morehouse College).

In 2001 Maxine S. Thompson and Verna M. Keith presented the results of a study on gender, skin tone and self efficacy. They found darker skin more problematic for women, for whom skin tone had more effect on self-esteem, especially for lower and working class women. Higher class women could escape the effects of skin color by other accomplishments. Skin tone presented less of a self-esteem issue for men, but did affect their sense of self-efficacy.[2]

...In the 1993 song Keep Ya Head Up by rapper Tupac Shakur, the novel's line "the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice" is referenced. The novel is also referenced in Kendrick Lamar's 2015 song "The Blacker the Berry"."**
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*It’s significant that the editors wrote “from their white fathers” and made no reference to the possibility of people who are mixed race having non-Black mothers.

**It's more accurate to say that these Hip Hop examples and other usages of the line "the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice" quote the saying and not necessarily the book with that title. However, the book is an early documented example of the use of Black folk's use of that saying to mean that dark skinned Black females are just as good if not better than other females.

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1969 - The Isley Brothers- The Blacker The Berrie (a/k/a Black Berries)
From http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-brothers-isley-mw0000024667"The Blacker The Berries (aka Black Berries) The Isley Brothers" AllMusic Review by Andrew Hamilton
"The late '60s and early '70s remain a favorite period in the Isley Brothers evolution. Ronald sung hard, and brothers O'Kelly and Rudolph supplied church-inspired backing whoops to his lead. The tunes had catchy titles and creative, rhyming lyrics. This recording is loaded with that rocking, "It's Your Thing" style. "The Blacker the Berry the Sweeter Juice" isn't about fruit but speaks of the desirability of dark-complexioned women."...

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The Isley Brothers- The Blacker The Berrie (a/k/a Black Berries)

#TheIsleyBrothers Published on Nov 6, 2014

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1993- Tupac's Hip Hop record Keep Ya Head Up
The first two lines of that rap are:
Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice
I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots"
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Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/07/2pac-keep-ya-head-up-with-lyrics_12.html for a pancocojams post on this rap.

Here's a response to a Yahoo.com question page about the second line of that rap:
From https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080508210732AAowkG2
"The darker the flesh then the deeper the roots? What do you think this means?" [The question and all responses are from 2008.]
♫Č.Ĵ.♫
"he was talkin about black people..."the darker you are the closer you are to your ancestors"...the darker the flesh(skin) then the deeper the roots(where it began, ancestors),"
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The responder alludes to Tupac's "Keep Ya Head Up" rap. The only other commenter who answered this, a blogger using the tag name "The Evil Genius", wrote "the darker your flesh is the closer you are to your ancestors."
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It's important to recognize that Tupac's "the darker the flesh, the deeper the roots" can be considered an expression of colorism, i.e. thinking that darker skinned people have more roots (or recognize and honor their roots-for instance their "blackness"- more than light skinned black people. That's significant because in the late 1960s and 1970s some afrocentric Black people accused light skinned Black people of not being "as black" as brown skinned or darker brown skinned Black people. And in 2008 some Black Americans labeled then candidate for US President Barack Obama as being "not Black enough" because he was mixed race and had no slave ancestors.

Usually colorism is thought of as people favoring light skinned people over dark skinned people, but being prejudiced against a person of color because of their light complexion is also a type of colorism.

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2002- The song "Run Tell That!" from the 2002 Broadway show Hairspray
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairspray_(musical)
"Hairspray is an American musical with music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman and a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, based on the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray. The songs include 1960s-style dance music and "downtown" rhythm and blues. In 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, plump teenager Tracy Turnblad's dream is to dance on The Corny Collins Show, a local TV dance program based on the real-life Buddy Deane Show.[1] When Tracy wins a role on the show, she becomes a celebrity overnight, and meets a colorful array of characters. She then launches a campaign to integrate the show. Hairspray is a social commentary on the injustices of parts of American society in the 1960s...

The musical's original Broadway production opened on August 15, 2002."
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Excerpt of the song "Run Tell That!"
[singer: Black male character "Seeweed"
I can't see
Why people look at me
And only see the color of my face

And then there's those
That try to help, god knows
But have to always put me in my place

Now i won't ask you to be color blind
'Cause if you pick the fruit
Then girl, you're sure to find...

The blacker the berry
The sweeter the juice
I could say it ain't so
But darlin', what's the use?

The darker the chocolate
The richer the taste
And that's where it's at...
...now run and tell that!!

ENSEMBLE
Run and tell that!

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Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2xkGS5i9ko for a video clip of "Hairspray - Run And Tell That (with subtitles)"
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I believe that the lines quoted above from the song "Run Tell That!" from the 2002 Broadway show Hairspray mark the beginning of the sexualization of the saying "the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice". Prior to that among Black people the saying served as an affirmation about the desirability of dark skinned females.

Another meaning that I've read online* that has been given to "the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice is that it refers to things or people getting better with age. I don't think that was what most Black Americans meant when we use that saying (prior to that song). That meaning is also alluded to in Kendrick Lamar's 2015 Hip Hop record that is highlighted below.

*Here are responses from a Yahoo.com question pages about the meaning of "the blacker the berry the sweeter the juice":
From https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080709154038AAcFBr3
"What does this old saying mean the blacker the berry the sweeter the juice?" [The question and all of the responses are from 2008]

JaneB
"It means that Things improve with age"
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soontobewed
"isn't it obvious? Look at a berry, when it is darker in color it tastes better becuase it has ripened. The more "ripened" the berry the better it tastes.."

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♥Slim Diva♥™
"It refers to black women too. Whoo hoo!!!!!"

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February 2015 Kendrick Lamar [Hip Hop] - The Blacker The Berry
WARNING: This song contains profanity, sexually explicit language, and the use of a form of the n word.

From http://www.eonline.com/news/624257/kendrick-lamar-s-fiery-new-song-the-blacker-the-berry-tackles-racism-and-violence-in-america-listen
"Kendrick Lamar's Grammy wins are further proof that he's undoubtedly one of the best artists in the rap game right now, but his latest work also shows that the 27-year-old is using his talent and status in the industry to deliver messages that matter.

The Compton rapper dropped a fiery new single on Monday titled "The Blacker the Berry" (inspired by the old saying "the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice," which was also famously used in Tupac Shakur's "Keep Your Head Up"), and not only does it have a crushing beat that inevitably causes you to head-nod for five minutes straight, but each lyric is laced with a powerful and emotional response to the ongoing race and violence issues in America.

Combine that with Kendrick's aggressive and passionate delivery, and you have a musical gem that evokes the frustrations and thoughts of protesters in the streets after the tragic killings of Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Eric Garner and other victims.”

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Lyric excerpt from http://genius.com/4869190http://genius.com/4869190

..."[Pre-Hook]
The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice
The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice
The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice
The blacker the berry, the bigger I shoot

[Hook: Assassin]
I said they treat me like a slave, cah' me black
Woi, we feel a whole heap of pain, cah' we black
And man a say they put me inna chains, cah' we black
Imagine now, big gold chains full of rocks
How you no see the whip, left scars pon' me back
But now we have a big whip parked pon' the block
All them say we doomed from the start, cah' we black
Remember this, every race start from the black*, jus 'member dat"
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*Correction from a commenter. The onsite transcriber of those lyrics had written “block” instead of "black", but I agree that the word "black" is a much better fit for the meaning of that verse.
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Update added on Feb. 13, 2020 to the July 23, 2019 pancocojams post entitled "What Do The Lyrics "Melanin Too Dark To Throw Her Shade" REALLY Mean In Beyonce's "Brown Skin Girl" Song?"http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/07/what-does-lyrics-melanin-too-dark-to.html:

The 1929 novel The Blacker The Berry, written by African American author Wallace Thurman popularized the saying "The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice", I've been thinking about that saying after recalling that Tupac included the line "The blacker the berry" in his 1993 Hip Hop song "Keep Ya Head Up" and Kendrick Lamar used that same line as the title of his 2015 Hip Hop song.

It occurs to me that the line "melanin too dark to throw her shade" in Beyonce's 2019 song "Brown Skin Girl is another way of praising very dark skin color. If "melanin too dark" in those lyrics mean "skin so dark" or "very dark", and if "throwing shade" means that you are putting down (insulting) someone, then those lyrics can have the same or similar sentiments as "The blacker the berry/the sweeter the juice".

The terms "melanin" and "melanated" have been widely used since around 2014 among certain populations of African Americans (those who are "woke" - conscious of the political & social realities of race). Among this population, "melanated" is an adjective that means "full of melanin" (i.e. full of Black African ancestry). "Melanated" is especially used to refer to Black people with dark brown skin.*

My guess is that "Melanin so dark to throw her shade" means that the person's skin is so dark that- just by that person's very presence- it throws shade (put down/insults anyone who isn't that dark. In other words, her very dark skin (melanin) by its very being excels over anyone who isn't that same skin color.

If this is the correct meaning of "melanin so dark to throw her shade", then that line is a contemporary version of "the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice". As such it's the complete reversal of how colorism usually operates throughout Western history and culture, in that colorism usually considers light skin (skin color that is white or near white) to be far better than black or brown skin.

From https://www.bustle.com/articles/37427-5-truths-about-colorism-that-ive-learned-as-a-black-woman-in-nyc"5 Truths About Colorism That I've Learned As a Black Woman In NYC" by Kristin Collins Jackson, Nov 18 2014
..."Colorism is the principle that those with lighter, fairer skin are treated with a higher regard than those with darker skin, and it happens both between racial communities and within them. Media outlets have long been accused of using Photoshop to lighten darker-skinned folks in order to make them more appealing to the masses. During Obama's first run for president, sources audaciously pointed out that our first black president was a light-skinned man, suggesting that he may not have been elected or had the same opportunities to be elected if he were darker-skinned. This discrimination has historical roots — during slavery, lighter-skinned black people often worked in the house, while darker-skinned black people were relegated to work in the fields.

[...]

colorism is one of the worst types of discrimination, it in itself does not discriminate. It exists everywhere, in all cultures, and in all races."...

"Melanin so dark to throw her shade" lyric is part of the contemporary "Black girl magic"/"melanated people" meme that echos the much older "The blacker the berry/the sweeter the juice" saying. Although these sayings are reactions to deep seated prejudice against dark skinned people, my position is that colorism that favors dark skin people over light skin people is just as problematic and poisonous as its reverse.

*Also, click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/05/what-does-term-melanated-mean-when-did.html for the May 2019 pancocojams post entitled "What Does The Term "Melanated" Mean & When Did "Melanin" Become A Popular Referent For Black People?"

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This pancocojams post showcases two of my favorite old school soul music records: "Love land" by Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band and "Expressway To Your Heart" by The Soul Survivors.

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All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to the composers of these songs and thanks to Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band and to The Soul Survivors for their musical legacies.

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SONG #1: LOVE LAND performed by Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band

Information about this 1970s song:
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Land_(song)
""Love Land" is a song written by Rose Marie McCoy and Luther Dixon. It was first recorded by Al Hibbler in 1959. Charles Wright and Don Trotter covered Al Hibbler's recordingand performed by Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band. It was released in 1970 on the Warner Bros label. It reached #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #23 on the U.S. R&B chart.[2] The song was featured on their 1969 album, In the Jungle, Babe.[3]

The song was produced by Wright.[4]

The single ranked #50 on Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1970.[5]"

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Showcase Sound File: Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band Love Land

Miguelitotres, Oct 15, 2010

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Lyrics: LOVE LAND
(composed by Rose Marie McCoy and Luther Dixon)

I have heard all about Love Land
And all of its little charms
But I know I'll never get to Love Land
Unless I'm wrapped up in your arms
Got to take me with you
Baby please, take me with you

How I'd love to walk down that golden street
Hand-in-hand with you where all the lovers meet
Whoa, I'd love to go to Love Land with you

Pretty baby, 'Cause my love is true, I swear, I do

I have heard all about Love Land
And all of its youthful hearts
Well, loneliness just can't live there
And happiness is the answer
You've got to take me with you
Baby, got to take me with you, oh yeah

How I'd love to walk down that golden street
Hand-in-hand with you where all the lovers meet
How I'd love to go to Love Land with you, yeah

Oh, I'd like to walk with you down that golden street
Hand-in-hand with you where all the lovers meet
Oh, I'd love to go to Love Land, Love Land with you

I do, swear I do, my love is true
Take me with you, baby
Yeah, take me with you, baby yeah

Got to, got to, got to, got to
Got to take me by the hand
Tell me, tell me, tell me baby, I'm your lover man

Together we can go and where we'll stop, yeah
Everybody will know, got to take me with you
Got to take me with you

Source: https://genius.com/Charles-wright-love-land-lyrics

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SONG #2: EXPRESSWAY TO YOUR HEART

Information about this 1967 song: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressway_to_Your_Heart
""Expressway to Your Heart" is a song written by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff and performed by the Soul Survivors. It appeared on their 1967 album, When the Whistle Blows Anything Goes,[1] which was produced by Gamble and Huff.[2]

The song reached #3 on the R&B chart and #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967,[3] and was ranked #18 on Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1967.[4]"...

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Showcase Sound File: The Soul Survivors - Expressway To Your Heart (Complete Unedited Stereo Master)

Gotta Have More Tunes, Jun 4, 2016

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Lyrics: EXPRESSWAY TO YOUR HEART
(composed by Leon Huff & Kenneth Gamble)

[Verse 1]
I've been tryin' to get to you for a long time
'Cause constantly you been on my mind
I was thinkin' about a shortcut I could take
But it seems like I made a mistake

[Bridge]
But I was wrong
Ooh, took too long
I got caught in the rush hour
Then fellas started to shower
You with love and affection
Now you won't look in my direction

[Chorus]
On the expressway to your heart
That expressway, not the best way
At five o'clock
It's much too crowded (too crowded)
It was much too crowded (too crowded)
So crowded (too crowded)
It was much too crowded, oh yeah (oh, too crowded)
So, so, so crowded (oh, too crowded)

[Verse 2]
There's too many ahead of me
They're all tryin' to get in front of me
I thought that I could find a clear road ahead
But I found stop lights instead

[Bridge]
But I was wrong
Baby, took too long
I got caught in the rush hour
Then fellas started to shower
You with love and affection
Come on, look in my direction

[Chorus]
On the expressway to your heart
That expressway, not the best way
At five o'clock
It's much too crowded (too crowded)
Much too crowded (too crowded)
So crowded (too crowded)
No room for me (oh, too crowded)
(Oh, too crowded)

Source: https://genius.com/The-soul-survivors-expressway-to-your-heart-lyrics

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This pancocojams post showcases on one of my favorite old school R&B/soul music songs: the 1992 record "If I Ever Fall In Love Again" by Shai.

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Thanks to Carl Martin for composing "If I Ever Fall In Love Again" and thanks to Shai for their musical legacy. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publishers of this video on YouTube.

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INFORMATION ABOUT THIS SONG
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Ever_Fall_in_Love

If I Ever Fall in Love" is a song by American R&B-soul quartet Shai. The song reached number 2 in the US in 1992, and peaked at number two on the US R&B chart.[2] Its eight weeks at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, which was held off from the top slot by The Height's How Do You Talk to an Angel and also due to the massive success of "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston, it was blocked for another seven more weeks, meant that it held the record for the second-most weeks at number two in the chart's history at the time, behind Foreigner's "Waiting for a Girl Like You". The record has since been equalled and surpassed, and "If I Ever Fall In Love" is now in joint ninth place with a number of more recent songs.

The song was also their only Top 40 hit in the UK, peaking at number 36.[3]"...

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SHOWCASE VIDEO- Shai - If I Ever Fall In Love

ShaiVEVO, Oct 6, 2009

Music video by Shai performing If I Ever Fall In Love. (C) 1993 Geffen Records
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Statistics as of Feb. 14, 2020 at 10:11 AM
Total views- 73,741,964
Total likes- 517K
Total dislikes-20k
Total comments

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LYRICS - IF I EVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN
(writer- Carl Martin)

The very first time
That I saw your brown eyes
Your lips said "Hello"
And I said "Hi"
I knew right then you were the one
But I was caught up
In physical attraction
But to my satisfaction
Baby you were more than just a phase
And if I ever (ever fall) in love again (again)
I will be sure that the lady is a friend
And if I ever (ever fall) in love so true (true)
I will be sure that the lady's just like you
Oooh
Yeeaah, baby, yeah
Ma-ma, ma-my, ma-my
I swear next time she'll be my friend
If I say that I can be your one and only
(Promise, promise) Promise that you'll never leave me lonely
I just wanna be the one you need
Oh baby
I just wanna be the one who serves you
Sometime I feel as if I don't deserve you
I cherish every moment that we share
And if I ever (ever fall) in love again (again)
I will be sure that the lady is a friend
And if I ever (ever fall) in love so true (true)
I will be sure that the lady's just like you
(My friend)
Very next time she will be my friend
Someone who I can believe in
(My friend)
[Repeat]
And if I ever (ever fall) in love again (again)
I will be sure that the lady is a friend
And if I ever (ever fall) in love so true (true)
I will be sure that the lady's just like you

Source: https://genius.com/Shai-if-i-ever-fall-in-love-lyrics

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SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THE DISCUSSION THREAD OF THIS EMBEDDED VIDEO
(with numbers added for referencing purposes only)
1. Luis Soto, 2018
"[looks around]👀

"myyy frieeeee*cough cough* ... nope, still cant do it""

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REPLY
2. Linda Mbithi, 2018
"😂😂😂😂😂"

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REPLY
3. Chevon Nunn, 2018
"lol......lol..."

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REPLY
4. Rugged Individualist ✓
"😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 I feel you"

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5. Ceo founder, 2019
"Fall/Winter of 1992 into 1993!
Teenager growing up in Crown heights/Flatbush/Brooklyn!
Girls went crazy at every house/apartment party when any DJ played this hit/tune!
R&B in the 1990s was the last golden era/decade of real music with meaning, soul, harmony and a message!"

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6. Bebe Alvarado, 2019
"These were the times music got you in trouble 😜🤭😍you felt the music down in your soul the words made sense they meant something wish we had that kinda of music still,but we have YouTube we can find and listen to all that old good stuff 😉"

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7. LL CooL E, 2019
"Me and my boy Jason used to sing this all the time. We thought we could get the girls by singing to them. That was over 30+ years ago. Good times!"

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8. LIL IGNANT
"It’s amazing how four voices can come together an make one unique sound what ever happened to this type of music?"

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9. henrianna e, 2020
"This song still slaps in 2020✌😭"

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10. Goldz ESM, 2020
"This song will never get old so beautiful 2020 and 4eva 🙏🏾❤🔥"

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This pancocojams post provides explanations of the African American saying "All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk" or similarly worded sayings.

This post also showcases seven excerpts from several online sources that include the saying "All my skinfolk ain't my kinfolk" (or similarly worded sayings).

The content of this post is presented for cultural and linguistic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their and educational purposes.

Thanks to Zora Neale Hurston for her cultural legacy. Hurston is widely credited as being the creator of the saying "All my skinfolks ain't kinfolks". Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post.

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WHO IS CREDITED WITH POPULARIZING THE SAYING "ALL SKINFOLK AIN'T MY KINFOLK"?
The saying "All my kinfolks ain't my skinfolk" is widely credited to Zora Neale Hurston. Read the quote given as #1 below that indicates that Zora Neale Hurston popularized that saying (as opposed to originated [coined] that saying.

Unfortunately, although numerous online sources attribute the saying "All my skinfolks ain't my kinfolks" to Zora Neale Hurston, none of those sources indicate when and where Huston used that saying (for instance, in which of her books or essays).

Here's information about Zora Neale Hurston from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston
"Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891[1][2] – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo.[3] The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays.

[...]

Hurston's works concerned both the African-American experience and her struggles as an African-American woman. Her novels went relatively unrecognized by the literary world for decades. Interest was revived in 1975 after author Alice Walker published an article, "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston", in the March issue of Ms. magazine that year."...

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DEFINITION OF "SKINFOLK"
From https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=skinfolk
"skinfolk
Someone who is of your own race or skin colour but not your family or friends , probably not someone you even like
All my skinfolk are not my kinfolk
by Deebaby January 18, 2017
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This bold font was used in this comment on that page. This is the only entry for "skinfolks" on that page (as of the date & time of this pancocojams post).

I think that Deebaby meant "not [just] your family or friends".

Note that for various reasons (including interracial marriage and adoption) every member of a person's family aren't always the same race/ethnicity that they are. Also, a person can have friends who aren't the same race/ethnicity/s that they are.

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DEFINITION OF "KINFOLK"
From https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/kinfolk
"kinfolk
Your kinfolk are the people in your family. Even very distant cousins you've never met can be described as your kinfolk.

When anthropologists use the term kinfolk, they mean people who are related by blood and share a common ancestor. You can use the word in a much wider way, though, to include people related by marriage and adoption, as well as friends who are so close you consider them part of your family. Kinfolk combines the Old English roots cynn, or "family," and folc, "people.""

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SEVERAL ONLINE DEFINITIONS OR EXCERPTS THAT EXPLAIN OR USE THE SAYING "ALL MY SKINFOLK AIN'T MY KINFOLK"(AND SIMILARLY WORDED SAYINGS)

(These excerpts are given in no particular order and are numbered for referencing purposes only.)

1. From https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2014/02/25-black-american-english-expressions_23.html 25 Black American English Expressions You Should Know (II)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D., Sunday, February 23, 2014

[...]
"24. “Skin folk.” This is a Black English expression for members of one’s race. It’s modeled on the Standard English expression “kinfolk,” which means members of one’s nuclear and extended family. The phrase was popularized by Zora Neale Hurston, an African-American folklorist and author who once famously said “All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.” It is a witty and creative way to say “not all people who share the same racial identity as me are my family.” In other words, there is more to friendship and affinity than mere racial similarity. African-Americans say this when they are betrayed by fellow blacks."

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2. From https://tcchitima.wordpress.com/2017/11/03/all-my-skinfolk-aint-kinfolk/“All my skinfolk ain’t kinfolk” by TCCHITIMA, NOVEMBER 3, 2017
"In my time at Girls’ College I came to the realisation that “all my skinfolk ain’t my kinfolk” This quote by Zara Neale Hurston perfectly describes the system at my school. The quote means that not all people who share the same racial identity as me are my family. This hit me hard. For a while, I’ve been wanting to speak up about the system that is rooted in inequality at my school and I’ve been getting messages from other black people telling me not to speak up because I’m still at the school or not to speak up because I’m leaving and it is no longer my issue. What they don’t understand is it is and always will be my issue! I am a proud black girl who loves everything about herself! I personally may not have been broken down by the system but my sisters have and they may not always be able to voice out their opinions!

[...]

The school encourages a snitch system reminiscent of apartheid/colonial eras and what I consider a disingenuous “campaign game” where you are rewarded according to your level of conformity. This has led to deeply engrained fear in a majority of the girls – afraid to speak up even when given a platform to do so anonymously… This is heartbreaking.

I stand in solidarity with all of the girls at my school affected by the racist remarks that were made at my school and attempts to erase our ethnicity and identity. I stand with those who have already spoken out and we stand for those who haven’t found the courage to speak up!"

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3. From https://extraecclesiamestlibertas.wordpress.com/2015/11/05/all-my-skinfolk-aint-my-kinfolk/
"All My Skinfolk Ain’t My Kinfolk" NOVEMBER 5, 2015 ~ LMICKENS
"One of Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson’s schticks is his insistence that if nominated and elected, he would be America’s first “real black president.” As opposed to the “fake black” president we have now. This assertion isn’t new, since Herman Cain was saying the same thing during his own failed presidential run, and this meme is being reiterated by white Republicans who are desperate to run a black candidate to make them seem less white and less racist. Whatever one thinks of Obama’s policies, the notion that he is somehow “less black” than Carson or Cain ignores the way in which blackness was and is constructed in the United States.

As I have mentioned before, using the one drop rule as the basis for determining who is black “defines blackness down” to the point where it has no meaning. If you go to Latin America or Europe, black people are considered to be, well, black. Beige, tan, coffee-colored,and copper-colored people are considered to be in a different category altogether, but in the United States all would be considered “black.” Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass both had white fathers, yet no one questions whether they are black.

Perhaps what Carson means is that Obama’s background and personal history differ too much too from that of the “average black person.” To which I would ask: so what? Contrary to what many people would have you believe, there is no single normative black experience. I know a lot of people would consider my own experiences — private secondary schools, private colleges, extensive post-graduate education, socialized mainly among white people, no experience in “the black church” — to not be a normative black experience.

There are as many black experiences as there are black people, and each experience is peculiar to that person. It’s particularly ironic, because Obama did everything right according to the conservative life plan (go to elite schools, wait until marriage to have children, got a number of high-paying positions) and actually governs to the right of Nixon, but is considered to be some kind of fire-breathing communist.

I think what is really going on is that conservatives think that black people voted for Obama simply because he’s black, so if they can get a black candidate of their own to field, they can finally get some of those sweet, sweet minority votes. Except if you actually look at the statistics .

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What Carson actually shows to me is that wingnuttery comes in many colors. Every day he seems to come up with some new ridiculous statement, like the pyramids were built by the Biblical character Joseph to store grain ( http://www.timesofisrael.com/carson-pyramids-not-tombs-built-by-joseph-to-store-grain) or that the Holocaust could have been prevented if the Jews had been armed (http://bluenationreview.com/ben-carson-implies-holocaust-could-have-been-prevented-if-jews-were-armed). While Carson may be a skilled surgeon, he has no business making public policy. Indeed, I think fellow black atheist Zora Neal Hurston said it best when she said, “All my skinfolk ain’t my kinfolk.”....

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4. From https://www.theroot.com/the-politics-of-being-woke-1790856010"The Politics of Being Woke" Lawrence Ware, 7/14/16
..."This is the heart of what it means to be “woke.” The masses of black folks who were lulled to sleep by economic opportunity have now awoken to the fact that race is, and will remain, a central part of the black experience. Yet there is disagreement about who is allowed to be woke and what is expected of those who have now entered into this new existential state of being.

Who Gets Access?
For me, being woke means awakening to the pervasive, intersectional insidiousness of white supremacy. This awakening is not limited to people of color. Black folks are not the only ones who needed a wake-up call.

Souls that inhabit white bodies can be allies and accomplices in the fight against oppression, in the same way that black folks can be agents and accomplices in promoting, promulgating and protecting white supremacy. As my grandmother once said, conjuring Zora Neale Hurston, “All your skinfolk ain’t your kinfolk.” Meaning that you can inhabit a black body and be an agent of white supremacy. Just ask Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, or any of the thousands of black Americans who are more concerned with white feelings than with black lives and bodies. Black folks don’t have the market cornered on being “woke,” and there is no agreement about how best to actualize the potentiality of the black community.”...

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5. From https://www.iesabroad.org/blogs/kandise-le-blanc/melanin-milan-finding-my-people-abroad#sthash.8GhHD6YU.dpbs"Melanin in Milan: Finding My People Abroad"
by Kandise Le Blanc, October 16, 2019
...."There’s a popular quote from Zora Neale Hurston within the Black community: “All my skinfolk ain’t kinfolk.” Meaning that just because someone is Black doesn’t mean that they’ll always have your back. Zora Neale Hurston’s quote highlights how Black folks can be pitted against one another. But when Black people support one another, we have the incredible capability to lift up one another. Time and time again, the Black students at IES Abroad Milan have shown up for me. From making dinner together to cheering like proud parents anytime I sing, these amazing people have become la mia famiglia (my family)."
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In the context of that post, "IES" means "The Institute for the International Education of Students, or IES Abroad, is a non-profit study abroad organization that administers study abroad programs for U.S. college-aged students."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_the_International_Education_of_Students

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6. From https://www.facebook.com/forblackwomenonly/posts/all-skin-folk-aint-kinfolk-dont-be-bullied-or-psychologically-blackmailed-into-s/1133033590041163/
For Black Women ONLY, March 1, 2016
"All skin-folk ain't kinfolk". Don't be bullied or psychologically blackmailed into supporting just anyone because they are black, especially if the work they produce or the values they uphold aren't in line with your values.
If they:

-denigrate black women's image for laughs
-abuse black women and children off-stage
-degrade and devalue blackness and the black identity (e.g. by stating that mixed race people are better looking, etc.)
-establish disparities among black people by cultures
-pander to racist Whites by placing the onus of racism on black people
and that is NOT about who you are and what you stand for, stick to your guns and REMOVE ALL FORMS OF SUPPORT."....
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The word "sh&t" (fully spelled out) is used several times in that post.

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7. From https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/28/1914021/-Black-Kos-Tuesday-s-Chile-Remembering-Zora-s-words-and-wisdom
Black Kos, Tuesday's Chile: Remembering Zora's words and wisdom
2020/01/28
“All my skinfolk ain’t my kinfolk” ~ Zora Neale Hurston

Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver-Velez

"As I watch certain folks, who may share melanated skin with me, and a family history of enslavement, persist in sucking up to the very people who would gladly sell us all back into shackles in hopes of gaining favor with the orange massa in the White House and his lackeys, I hear the words of Sistah Zora Neale Hurston in my head.

“All my skinfolk ain’t my kinfolk”

At a time when an all-white slate of Democratic Presidential candidates are fightin’ like yard dogs over a bone, to win over the black vote with new promises and plans, and blue check mark black Twitterati are pontificatin’ and vying to deliver that which they actually cannot do (but will get brownie points for trying) I hear Zora’s voice again, which smart politicians should heed (though I doubt many or any of them have read her)

“But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.”

She coulda been talking about Donald Trump when she quipped:

“Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something.”

On the anniversary of her death, I seek the wisdom she offered during her life.

There is so much of it."...

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part IV of a four part pancocojams series on American hand gestures. Part IV of this series focuses on dap (handshakes).

Each of the posts in this series focus on hand gestures that were either created by African Americans or have been most closely associated with African Americans.

For Part I of this series (Five On The Black Hand Side handshakes), click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/05/five-on-black-hand-side-handshake.html.

For Part II of this series (High Fives),
click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/05/high-five-handshake-videos.html

For Part III of this series click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/05/fist-bump-pound-handshakes.html.

The content of this post is presented for historical, folkloric, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

The copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those quoted in this post, and to all those who are featured in these videos. Thanks also to the publishers of these videos on YouTube.
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Most of this pancocojams post was originally published in May 2012. http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/05/giving-daps-intricate-handshakes.html.

The 2012 post has a section that isn't included in this post: how many African American women greet other African American women & AA men and the way that African American men often greet African American women. That way of greeting is to lightly hug each other. Sometimes women give air kiss near each of the cheeks of the person being greeted.

This 2020 post features one different video than the 2012 post.

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PANCOCOJAMS POST
Daps are usually done by males. Read my comment above about how African American women often greet each other and how we often greet African American men.

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PART IV
GENERAL OVERVIEW OF DAP HANDSHAKES
From http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-dap-greeting.htm
"A dap greeting is a series of arranged gestures exchanged between two individuals. Although a dap greeting can be exchanged upon meeting someone, it can also be used to indicate agreement, celebration or fellowship at any time. A dap greeting can include slapping hands, bumping fists in any direction, snapping, wiggling fingers and other forms of contact, and it can last anywhere from a few seconds to more than a minute. Dap greetings originated in the black community and have since spread to other racial groups, with many subcultures and groups of friends developing their own very specific dap greetings...

Origins

This type of greeting typically is non-verbal, and it is exchanged as a gesture of affection and solidarity. Dap greetings are believed to have originated in Africa, where people from different tribes might exchange such greetings upon meeting each other to indicate peaceful and friendly intentions. Blacks who emigrated to other parts of the world — including those forcefully transported as slaves — developed their own dap greetings...

Meaning of "Dap"
Some people believe that “dap” is an acronym for “dignity and pride,” reflecting the adoption of the dap greeting by the black power movement. Others suggest that “dignity and pride” is merely what is sometimes called a "backronym"— an acronym thought up after a word already existed. "Dap" also might be a shortening of another word or an onomatopoeia — a word that imitates the noise produced by this type of greeting; some dap greetings create a sound much like “dap,” which is produced by pulling the slightly cupped hands of the participants against each other."
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From http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Shake-That--The-Right-Way/3669693
Shake That! The Right Way By: liss
"[In] Benin [West Africa], young men snap fingers while shaking hands. In Botswana [South Africa], people touch hands with a slight grazing of the palms and fingers. In Singapore [Asia], after you handshake its customary to place the other persons hand over your heart. Among Scandinavian [Europe] teens, exchanging spit by means of a handshake seals a deal...

Jamaicans complain that Americans are distant and Americans complain that Germans are cold and unfriendly. Sure, when you first meet them, Jamaicans dont shake hands with you. But once you get acquainted, they expect a casual lock and fly or a one harmed hug or a shug or a bro grab or a hetero-hug or whatever its known as in your country" ...
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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dap_greeting:
"Though it can refer to many kinds of greetings involving hand contact, dap is best known as a complicated routine of shakes, slaps, snaps, and other contact that must be known completely by both parties involved. Dap greeting sometimes include a pound hug."

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DAPS: EXCERPT FROM THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN VIETNAM: BROTHERS IN ARMS
*ADDED SECTION [February 25, 2018] : The African American Experience in Vietnam: Brothers in Arms
By James E. Westheider
https://books.google.com/books?id=VHEL34ALzO4C&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&dq=fist+pounding+heart+handshake&source=bl&ots=McVvUG2DxW&sig=AnQNKfKkpEk2V9WQZ0wUecSa-VA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwin19vV7MHZAhXIUt8KHdCYB9w4ChDoAQgvMAE#v=onepage&q=fist%20pounding%20heart%20handshake&f=false
page 76
..."African Americans who remained in the armed services often reacted to racism by seeking comfort and safety in racial solidarity and by establishing their own sub-culture within the military. They called each other “brother”, “soul brother”, or “bloods”, and they were proud of being black. Two popular methods of greeting fellow black soldiers and demonstrating racial solidarity were the black power salute, a clenched fist in the air, and the “dab”, which developed in Vietnam, probably among inmates of the notorious Long Binh stockade. Dap is a corruption of the word “dep” Vietnamese slang for something beautiful. The dap, also known as “checking in”, was an intricate ritualized handshake, involving numerous gestures and movements. There was no standard dap, but there were many common gestures. There were countless variations of dap, and some of the more common greetings could go on for five or more minutes. Each move had a specific meaning: Pounding on the heart with a clenched fist, for example, symbolized brotherly love and solidarity; clenching fingers together and then touching the backside of the hand meant “My brother, I’m with you”. Most of the gestures signified solidarity, respect, and pride, but a few had darker meanings. A slicing movement across the throat symbolized cutting the throats of white MPs, never a favorite group among black recruits."...

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SHOWCASE VIDEOS
Video #1: lebrons Pre-game handshakes

Uploaded by nlnodoubt on Dec 20, 2009

lebron james secret handshakes with his Cleveland cavaliers teammates, He is truly an incredible talent.
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Actually, I don't think these handshakes are secret. "Personalized" is probably a better word to describe them, as Lebron appears to have a different dap handshake for each person.

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Video #2: Monta Ellis' Amazing Handshake

Uploaded by SciFientology on Jan 14, 2010
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WARNING! A number of viewers of this video connected the handshake shown in this video with the Gangster Disciple Nation (GDN or GD).

Certain handshakes are associated with specific gangs. Those handshakes absolutely should NOT be done by people who aren’t members of those gangs.

[This prohibition against non-members doing this handshake doesn't apply to the high five that followed it.]
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In this clip, Monta Ellis said "I told ya I'd warm that thang up." (referring to the basketball shots that he made.]

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Video #3: Ebony & Ivory Handshake - The Bert Show

Uploaded by q100atlanta on Jun 19, 2011

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Video #4: Everybody Hates Chris and Albert Hand Shake

Sly Cooper, Aug 3, 2012

from season Season 3 Episode 9 of Everbody Hates Chris
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From
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Hates_Chris
"This television show is inspired by the teenage experiences of comedian Chris Rock (who is also the narrator). The show is set from 1982 to 1987; however, Rock himself was a teenager during years 1978-1983."

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Video #5: Fresh Prince - Will Jazz Handshake Compilation

Jibb's Compilations, Published on May 7, 2014

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Video #6 Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Carlton playing gangster in Compton.flv

Anmol Warsi, Jan 22, 2011
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Pancocojams Editor's Note: This television clip from an episode of the early 1990s to mid 1990s American television show, The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air contains several examples of dap handshakes.

1:27-1:28 - an agreement handshake

2:02-2:03 - a departure handshake

2:09 - 2:10 - a handshake as a sign of approval

2:34 - a handshake as a sign of approval

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This episode also includes an example of the vertical fist bump [1:41-1:42]

Click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fresh_Prince_of_Bel-Air for information about that television show.

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Video #7: Dignity and Pride Communicated by a Handshake

Great Big Story, Feb 5, 2018

The dap is more than just a handshake, it’s a symbol of solidarity, one with a long and proud history behind it. The origins of this greeting trace back to young Black American soldiers stationed abroad during the Vietnam War. With racism prevalent in the military and a new Black consciousness emerging during the civil rights movement, the young soldiers developed a physical language as a gesture of unity. Thus was born the dap, an acronym for “Dignity and Pride.” Photographer LaMont Hamilton has been studying the historical impact of the dap in his series “Five on the Black Hand Side,” telling the story of how the handshake came to hold such a profound place in Black culture.

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post presents information about how some African American women greet each other.

This post also includes a video of "Black women hugging".

The content of this post is presented for cultural purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publisher of this video on YouTube.

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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
This post is closely related to the 2020 pancocojams post entitled "The History & Meanings Of African American's Dap Handshakes (with YouTube videos)"https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-history-meanings-of-african.html

Daps are usually done only by men to other men.

Here's how some African American women often greet each other and how we often greet African American men:
Depending on who they are and where they are (for instance, whether or not they are in a predominately Black setting or a predominately White setting) some African American women greet other African American women and African American men by briefly and lightly hugging each other. This form of hugging is usually to the side and not belly to belly.

Sometimes African American women will pat each other or Black men on the back while hugging and sometimes we will give air kisses (pretend to give a kiss on each cheek of the person being hugged).

"The hug" with or without patting on the back and/or air kisses is the expected form of greeting that most Black women do and expect to receive at Black functions such as an African dance program and a Kwanzaa gathering.

I've also given "the hug" to some non-Black women-and less often, some non-Black men- depending on our setting and how familiar and comfortable with African American culture I believe they are.

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SHOWCASE VIDEOS
1. The Ben Show - Black Women Hugging

Comedy Central, Apr 23, 2014

When you're feelin' down and you need some lovin', just look at black women hugging.

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2. Greetings and Goodbyes, Hug or Handshake? Hugging and American Culture

Rachel's English, Oct 20, 2015

Americans usually hug when saying 'hello' or 'good-bye'. But sometimes it's a handshake instead -- and sometimes it gets awkward! In this video, Rachel goes over when to hug and when to shake hands in American culture.
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In my experience, in some settings (as I mentioned in Pancocojams Editor's Note above), a hug is expected even if you are just meeting a person. This differs from the statement that is made at .40 in this video "You don't do this [give a hug] to someone you've never met. However, I agree with the woman speaking in this video that hugs are usually not done in formal settings.

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post showcases a video blog by De'Angelo Brown, a Deaf man who shares some remembrances of his childhood and teenage years. In this vlog De'Angelo Brown encourages families to be more supportive of their Deaf children than his family was.

This post also features a few comments from this video's discussion thread.

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The content of this post is presented for cultural and educational purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to De'Angelo Brown for sharing his remembrances with us and thanks also for his advocacy on behalf of Deaf people. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to De'Anglo Brown for publishing this vlog on YouTube.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO LOG (VLOG)- What is it like to be DEAF?

Iamdeffamilia, Feb 20, 2013

Hi! My name is De'Angelo Brown.

Thanks for watching!

[...]

This VLOG is to educate the hearing people and help spread the awareness about our Deaf culture. The VLOG part two coming soon but If you have any stories to share what you or someone you know went through similiar experience and want to make a VLOG please email Iamdeffamilia@gmail.com and I can be reached at hangouts by using that email as well.

I hope to stay connected with every one of you!! ---Def Familia
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I didn't include the two social media links that are given in this summary because they are no longer operable.

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Here are a few comments from this video's discussion thread (with numbers added for referencing purposes only)
1. Doffloffle27, 2013
"This is going to sound cheesy, but I honestly started trying to learn sign language because of the TV show Switched at Birth. But honestly, as I researched more into Deaf culture and language, I've found I've really come to have such an appreciation and respect for it. I couldn't imagine how difficult it is, yet I've seen so many Deaf people share their stories throughout which they're so positive. Rather than being pessimistic about their circumstance, they don't let it hinder them at all and so many of them come out with such amazing character! I think it would be really beneficial if it were possible for hearing people to try to go just one week without hearing. I think their perspective would really change and they'd be able to understand and respect Deaf people much better. I'm hoping to spend a part of my future helping to educate Deaf children as they grow up, and give them the love and support they need and that their families might not always provide simply because they don't know how. Keep being strong and confident in who you are! :) You're awesome!"

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2. Darin McIntier, 2014
"Awesome video. I am the father of a deaf or HOH child. I never know which is the more appropriate to say. My son is 15 and hears 'well' with his hearing aides. He hears well enough that I often forget about it. Your comments about asking what they said in a movie or TV show really hit home for me. I am really big into the 'tempo' of a show or movie. I don't like to pause or interrupt the movie for anyone (ask my wife) - much less my son who has hearing aides and an FM system that is directly connected to the Audio system. I often tell him to put his "ears on" whenever he isn't wearing his hearing aides and starts interrupting the show with questions about who said what. Your video has opened my eyes to just how offensive that must be to him. I am trying to raise him to be independent in a hearing world, but I should be more sensitive to his needs than that. I really do thank you - your video has made a difference for this ignorant hearing father."

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3. Tiffany Madden, 2014
"I'm deaf I know what is like when I was growing up hearing people bully me jump me because I was nice different but they know I was deaf they did not care about so they bully me and the hearing teachers did not care about it I got jump so I got home on the yellow bus I cry all the way home to tell my mom what happened my mom is hearing my family is hearing I'm the only deaf one in the family my mom was happy to have a deaf baby girl my dad was not okay with me born deaf my dad not in my life so my mom family teach me how to read lips understand what they say so being deaf in school with hearing kids was hard my mom fight the teachers for not giving me classes to learn understand my mom push the school to give me a try in different classes my mom said to me in front of the principal don't never let a hearing person say you can't do anything because you you are very smart . so what that my child is deaf my mom said my daughter deaf but all the hearing teachers did not wanna have me in there classes my mom stand by me and said to everyone you are going to give to teach my daughter the teachers was scared of my mom because see fight for me and she love me just the way I am so teach gave me a try in there classes they were shock I understand what I was doing my mom said my daughter us just like other kids but difference in her own way as deaf is beautiful to watch my daughter sign language in school I was still bully but that did not stop me from coming to school I teach some hearing kids sign language they wanna learn what is like to sign I said to the hearing kids you want to learn from me sign I laugh so I teach them I never been to a deaf school I learn what is like to be a hearing teenager but I'm still deaf forever I don't wish to be hearing because I like being deaf my mom always told me fight back at the hearing don't let them put you down like your dumb or something you are a smart baby girl I ever had my mom said she smile at me and hug me the end .so now I'm a woman 2014 I'm proud to be deaf I thank my mom for everything in my life she helped me stay strong woman my mom teach me to understand the outside world hearing people I thank my for standing by me.:-) :-)

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4. AleahKCH, 2015
"I just wanna cry and hug this guy, not because that happened to him, but because he overcame so much (and he's pretty attractive). I hate that he barely even had his family in his corner, but he gained a new family at his school that gave him so much. His sense of pride is so admirable... I just love this video!"

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5. Dannette Lira-Anderson, 2016
"Curious.. when are you planning to make part 2 vlog? I showed your video to my ASL class. They have learned a lot from you! Even share this information to hearing parents with deaf child. :-)"

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post provides an excerpt of a list of enslaved people who were owned by George Washington, the first President of the United States those who were controlled by him as part of his wife's dowry, and those who were rented by him in 1786 by contract with Mrs. Penelope French at the time he acquired her life rights to land that she owned.

I'm most interested in documenting the types of names that were used by [given to or self-selected by?] these Black American enslaved people, particularly names that can be traced to West African languages.

Part I of this post presents some of the names from a paper which is said to have been written by George Washington around 1799.

The Addendum to that post showcases the names that I believe are of West African origin. That Addendum also highlights names (or nicknames) that would be considered unusual now, but may have been relatively common for Black people and non-Black people in the 18th century and also highlights what I consider to be other unusual names which may not have been common in the 18th century.

Part II presents additional names from a paper which is said to have been written by George Washington around 1799. The Addendum to that post showcases the names that I believe are of West African origin. That Addendum also highlights names (or nicknames) that would be considered unusual now, but may have been relatively common for Black people and non-Black people in the 18th century. [These lists are divided into two posts because of space considerations only.]

Thanks to the government archives for sharing this information online.

RIP all those who are named in these lists.

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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR’S NOTE:
The information from this paper is reformatted to only include the people’s name, age [when given], marital status (when given for adults), and gender/mother’s name [when given].

In addition to that information, these paper includes notation about the people’s occupation [given as “Labour”], their disabilities, whether people [such as older people] were able to work, and where their spouse lived if they weren’t on the same farm/had the same owner. Some of that information is given under the heading of “Remarks” which I’ve left out of this reformatted list.

George Washington used the word “Ditto” instead of written the same words that were used in that list before that name. For instance, “His wife” is given as “Ditto” if the words “His wife” were given before that name. Sometimes GW didn’t write either “His wife” or Ditto, but merely wrote the name of the wife.] For both of these entries, I’m writing “His wife” in brackets [Example: “George [His wife] Lydia”.

I added a hyphen to separate the name from the marital information/name or the mother's name.

When there wasn’t a space, I also added a space between the words “His wife” and the wife’s name.

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It’s interesting to note how many of George Washington’s enslaved people were married (since the USA history that I remembering learning in school/college indicated that enslaved Black people in the USA couldn’t be married). It’s also interesting to read how many of the married couples that are listed in this paper had to live apart from each other on another farm and/or with another owner.

It's also interesting to note that most of the names that were given to or selected by Black people on George Washington's farms and the farm that he had control of were considered to be "standard" American names in the late 18th century, and most of those names are still standard American names now (in 2020).

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WASHINGTON'S SLAVE LIST, JUNE 1799
[extracted from] “Washington’s Slave List, June 1799,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed September 29, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-04-02-0405. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 4, 20 April 1799 – 13 December 1799, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, pp. 527–542.]

“Washington’s Slave List, June 1799
[June 1799]
Editorial Note
The list of Mount Vernon slaves which GW drew up, probably some time in June 1799, included those slaves owned by him outright, those who were controlled by him as part of Martha Washington’s dowry, and a number who were rented by him in 1786 by contract with Mrs. Penelope French at the time he acquired her life rights to land that she owned on Dogue Run.

The slaves Washington owned in his own right came from several sources. He was left eleven slaves by his father’s will; a portion of his half brother Lawrence Washington’s slaves, about a dozen in all, were willed to him after the death of Lawrence’s infant daughter and his widow; and Washington purchased from time to time slaves for himself, mostly before the Revolution.

Washington also hired for varying periods of time individual slaves, usually skilled artisans, from neighbors and acquaintances. These do not appear on this slave list.

Only one other complete roll of the slaves at Mount Vernon has been found. In February 1786 Washington recorded in his diary all the Mount Vernon slaves, dower and personal, the farms on which they lived, and their jobs. The total at that time came to 216; it did not include Mrs. French’s slaves, the use of whom Washington acquired later in the year.

There are also in the Washington Papers at the Library of Congress Washington’s lists of his tithables in Truro and Fairfax parishes (where Mount Vernon lies) for every year from 1760 through 1774. These have been printed in the Papers, Colonial Series. These lists name slaves living at Mount Vernon but do not include children under the age of sixteen and a few elderly slaves who were not tithed. The lists of tithables also include the names of indentured white servants and other whites living on the farms, including GW’s overseers and managers. For further information on GW’s slaves, see Charles Lee to GW, 13 Sept. 1786, and especially note 4 to that document, GW to William Triplett, 25 Sept. 1786, and notes 3 and 5 (Papers, Confederation Series, 4:247–49, 268–74), Memorandum: Division of Slaves [1762] and note to that document (Papers, Colonial Series, 7:172–74), Division of Slaves, 10 Dec. 1754 (ibid., 1:227–31), and Diaries, 4:277–83.

Negros Belonging to George Washington in his own right and by Marriage

GW TRADESMEN &CA
Names ages
Nat - His Wife Lucy
George- [His wife] Lydia
Isaac- [His wife] Kitty
James- 40 -[His wife] Darcus
Sambo - [His wife] Agnes
Davy- [His wife] Edy
Joe - [His wife] Dolshy
Tom- [His wife] Nanny
Moses- No Wife
Jacob- No Wife
George- His wife Sall
Harry- No wife
Boatswain- His wife Myrtilla
Dundee- His wife [no name, a location given]
Charles- [His wife] Fanny
Ben- [His wife] Penny
Ben- [His wife] Sinah
Forrester- No Wife
Nathan - Wife Peg
W. Muclus
Juba - No wife
Matilda
Frank- Wife Lucy
Will- no wife
amount 24

MANSION HOUSE
Passed Labour
Frank- 80 -No Wife
Gunner - 90 -Wife Judy
Sam - 40 -[Wife] Alce
amount 3
Trades &ca not engagd in Cropping 24
Total 2[7] not cultivators of the Soil3

DOWER TRADESMEN &CA
Names ages
Tom Davis -Wife [no name given]
Simms - [Wife] Daphne
Cyrus- [Wife] Lucy
Wilson- 15 -no wife
Godfrey -Wife- Mima
James - [Wife] Alla
Hanson - No wife
Peter - [No wife]
Nat - [no wife]
Daniel- [no wife]
Timothy- [no wife]
Sla[min] Joe -Wife Sylla
Chriss-[Wife, no name given]
Marcus- no Wife
Lucy- Husband Ho[use] Frank
Molly- No Husband
Charlotte -No husband
Sall- [no husband]
Caroline- Husb[an]d Peter Hardman
Kitty- [husband] Isaa.
Alce - [husband] Charles Freeman
Betty Davis- [husband] Mrs Washington’s—Dick
Dolshy - Husbd Joe
Anna- [husband, no name given]
Judy- 21- No Husband
Delphy -[no Husband]
Peter- No wife
Alla- Husbd James
amount 28

MANSION HOUSE
Will Wife Aggy
Joe [Wife] Sall
Mike No wife
Sinah- Husbd Ben
Mima- [Husband] Godfrey
Lucy- No Husband
Grace- Husbd Mr Lear’s Juba
Letty- No husband
Nancy- [No husband]
Viner- [No husband]
Eve- 17 [No husband]
Delia- 14

Children
Phil- Son to Lucy
Patty- daughter to [Lucy]
Rachel- 12 daughter to Caroline
Jemima- 9 [daughter to Caroline]
Leanthe- 8 [daughter to Caroline]
Polly- 6 [daughter to Caroline]
Peter—B. 4 [daughter to Caroline]
Emery- Son to Alce
Tom- Son to Alce
Charles - Son to Alce
Henriette- Daughr [to Alce]
Barbara- 10 [daughter] to Kitty
Levina- 6 [daughter to Kitty]
Elvey- [daughter] to Charlotte
Jenny- [daughter to Charlotte]
Eliza- [daughter to Charlotte]
Nancy- 9- [daughter] to Betty D[avis] (Pancocojams Editor: This name written this way in that list)
Oney- 6- [daughter to Betty D[avis]
Lucinda- 2- [daughter to Betty D[avis]
Daniel- 6- Son to Anna
Anna- 4- daugh. [to Anne]
Sandy- 1½ -Son [to Anne]
Sucky- 5- daughr to Dolshy
Dennis- 2 mo.- Son [to Dolshy]
John - [Son]- to Mima
Randolph- [Son to Mima]
Nancy- daughr to Sinah
Burwell- Son to Lucy

Passed labour
Doll- No husband
Jenny- [No husband]

Old 2
Workers 12
Children 28
Amount 42 Mansion House
House Serts Spinners &ca &ca 28
Total 70 Not employed in the Crops &ca
Geo: Washington 2[7]
Dower 70
In all 9[7] not employed in the Crops

GW MUDDY HOLE F[ARM]
Names age
Gabriel 30 Wife Judy
Uriah 24
Moses 19 Son to Darcus
Kate old Husbd Will
Nanny [old] [Husband] Tom
Sacky 40 No Husband
Darcus 36 Husbd James
Peg 34 [Husband] Nathan
Alce 38 [Husband] Sam
Amie 30 No Husband
Nancy 28 Husbd Abram
Molly 26 No Husband
Virgin- 24- Husbd Gabl
Letty- 19- No husband
Kate long -18- daughr of Kate
Kate sht-[sht="short"] - 18 [daughter of Alce]

Isbel 16 [daughter] Sarah—dead
Townshend 14 Son to Darcus

Children
Alce -8 -Daughr to Darcus
Nancy -2 -[daughter to Darcus]
Lucy -11- Daughr to Peg
Diana- 8- [Daughr to Peg]
Alexander 3 Son [to Peg]
Darcus- 1- Daughr [to Peg]
Oliver- 11- Son to Nancy
Siss -8- Daughr [to Nancy]
Martin- 1 -Son [to Nancy]
George- 8- [Son] to Alce
Adam- 7- [Son to Alce]
Cecelia- 2- Daughr [to Alce]
Sylvia- 10- [Daughter] to Molly
James -7 -Son [to Molly]
Rainey- 8 -Daughr to Amie
Urinah- 2- [Daughter to Arnie]
Billy- 2- Son to Letty
Henry- 1- Son to Letty

Workers 18
Children 18 together 36

DOWER MUDDY HOLE F[ARM]
Names age
Davy- 56- Wife Molly
Will—Mink -60 -[Wife] Kate
Molly -76- Husband Davy
Patience -14- Daughtr Dolly
Mary- 11- [daughter] Betty
Workers 3
Does nothing 1
Young 1 In all 5
Altogether at this Farm 41.

GW RIVER FARM
Names age
Robin- 80 nearly passed
Natt -55 -Wife Doll

Ned -56 -[Wife] Hanh
Ben -22
Peg 56 -Husbd old Ben
Judy- 55- [Husband] Gunna
Cloe- 55- No husband
Suckey- 50 =[No husband]
Suckey—Bay -46 husbd- [no name given]
Sall- 30- [husband] Postn Joe
Rose- 28- No husband
Penny- 20- Husbd Ben
Lucy- 18- [Husband] Cyrus
Hannah- 12- daughr [to?] Daphne dead
Daniel- 15- Son to Suckey
Henry- 11- Son to Sall
Nancy- 11- daugh. to Bay Suke

Children
Elijah- 7 -Son to Sall
Dennis- 5 -[Son to Sall]
Gutridge- 3 -[Son to Sall]
Polly- 1- daughr [to Sall]
Hagar- 6 -[Daughter] to Rose
Simon- 4- Son [to Rose]
Tom- 2 -[Son to Rose]
Joe- 1- {Son to Rose]
Nancy- 4 -Daughr to Bay Suke

Passed labour
Ruth 70 husbd Breechy
Workers 17
Children 9
Passed labr 1 together 27

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ADDENDUM

NAMES FROM THIS LIST THAT MAY BE FROM TRADITIONAL AFRICAN LANGUAGES OR FROM ARABIC
[given in no particular order and numbered for referencing purposes only]

1. "Juba" -found in various traditional West African languages

2. "Nanny" - from Twi (Ghana/Ivory Coast) name/title "nana".

3. Mink - [in the name Will-Mink] from the name "Mingo"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandingo_people_of_Sierra_Leone
"Mandinka people of Sierra Leone (commonly referred to as the Mandingo, Mandinka or Malinke) is a major ethnic group in Sierra Leone and a branch of the Mandinka people of West Africa"...

4. Sambo -found in various traditional West African languages

5. Sina; Senah- given in this list as a female name; These names may have come from the Arabic female name "Sena"http://muslimbabynames.hawramani.com/sena/

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NAMES/NICKNAMES FROM THIS LIST THAT ARE UNUSUAL IN THE 21st CENTURY (but were probably common in the 18th century for Black and non-Black people)
[given in no particular order and numbered for referencing purposes only]

1. Sukey, a nickname for the female name "Susan". https://nameberry.com/babyname/Sukey

The word "bay" in the name "Bay Sukey" probably refers to a geographical location, and probably was used to distinguish that woman from the other "Sukey".

The female names "Suckey" and "Sacky" in this list are probably variant spellings of the nickname "Suckey".

2.Dolshy, a variant form of the Latin female name/nickname Dulce/Dulcina http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Dulcina

3. Myrtilla, a variant form of the Greek name "Myrtle"? https://nameberry.com/babyname/Myrtle

4. Letty- a nickname for the female name "Leticia" [in the 20th/21st century the spelling Letisha may be more common-especially among African Americans- than the spelling "Leticia".]

6. Darcus - a variant form of the Greek name "Dorcus" [?] https://www.sheknows.com/baby-names/name/dorcas/

7. Hagar -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagar
"Hagar (Hebrew: הָגָר, Hāḡār, of uncertain origin;[1] Arabic: هَاجَر‎‎ Hājar; Greek: Ἁγάρ, Hagár; Latin: Agar) is a biblical person in the Book of Genesis. She was an Egyptian slave of Sarah,[2] who gave her to Abraham to bear a child. The product of the union was Abraham's firstborn, Ishmael, the progenitor of the Ishmaelites. Various commentators have connected her to the Hagrites, perhaps as their eponymous ancestor.[3][4][5][6]

The name Hagar originates from the Book of Genesis; she is acknowledged in all Abrahamic religions. Hagar is alluded to in the Quran, and Islam considers her Abraham's second wife."...

8. Viney - perhaps a female form of the male name "Vincent" [?], Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinie_Burrows for information about the African American Broadway actress Vinie Burrows [Born Vinie Harrison November 15, 1924 (age 95)[1]

9. Elvey- a female name which may be a shortened form of "Elvira"

10. Burwell -given as a male name in that paper, now only used as a surname

11. Leanthe -a form of the female name "Leana"? http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Leana

12. Gab1 = may be the male name "Gabe". The one might be a mistake.
13. Mima= perhaps a shortened form of the feamle name "Jemima"https://nameberry.com/babyname/Jemima
14. Hanson= probably a name which is now used only used as a surname.

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Common Names [in the 20th/21st century USA] that are spelled differently in George Washington's 1799 paper:
1. Alce is probably the female name "Alice".
2. Hanh - is probably a short form of the female name "Hannah".
3.Amie - is probably the female name "Amy".
4. Gutridge -probably the name "Guthridge"that is now only used as a surname.
5. Townshend - probably the name "Townsend" that is now only used as a surname
6. Natt = the male nickname "Nat" (from "Nathaniel" or "Nathan")
7. Siss may be a nickname for the female name "Cecilia"; also given as "Sissy"
8. Sall= form of the nickname "Sally", a nickname for "Sara[h]"
9.Virgin, probably a variant form of the name "Virginia"
10. Isbel - probably a form of the female name "Isabelle"
11. Forrester - given as a male name, now used mostly as a surname

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OTHER NAMES THAT UNUSUAL NAMES/NICKNAMES ON THIS LIST (which may not have been common in the 18th century.)
1. Breechy [given as a male name]
2. W. Muclus [given as a male name]
3. Rainey [given as a female name]
4. Urinah [given as a female name]
5. Oney - from the word "one"?
6. Gunna - ?
7. Alla [given as a female name, from "Allah?" or a variant form of the "Olivia"?
8. Delphy - probably a nickname for the Latin name "Delphinia" or the French female name "Delphine"
9. Boatswain- a noun that is rarely used as a personal name - "the officer on a ship who is responsible for taking care of the ship's equipment"https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/boatswain
10. Dundee- [used in that paper as a male name, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundee"Dundee is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom.
11. Sla[min] Joe - Salmon [?]

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This concludes Part I of this two part pancocojams post.

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part II of a three part pancocojams series that excerpts a 1799 paper that was written by George Washington, the first President of the United States. That paper lists enslaved Black people who were owned by or otherwise controlled by George Washington.

Part II of this series presents additional names from a paper listing George Washington's slaves that he wrote in June 1799. which is said to have been written by George Washington around 1799. [These lists are divided into Part I and Part II only because of blog space considerations.]

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/02/names-of-enslaved-black-people-on.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. Part I of this series presents some of the names from a paper listing George Washington's slaves that he wrote in June 1799. [These lists are divided into Part I and Part II only because of blog space considerations.]

Part III of this series highlights the names or nicknames from George Washington's 1799 of slaves that I believe are of African or Arabic origin.

Part III of this series highlights names (or nicknames) from that entire George Washington's 1799 paper of enslaved people that would be considered unusual now, but may have been relatively common for Black people and non-Black people in the 18th century.

In addition, Part III highlights what I consider to be other unusual names from that 1799 paper which may not have been common in the 18th century.

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The content of this post is presented for historical and linguistic purposes.

I'm most interested in documenting the types of names and nicknames that were used by these Black enslaved people, i.e. names that would be considered "standard" in the United States at that time, and names/nicknames that would be considered unusual during that time, including names that can be traced to West African languages or Arabic.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to the government archives for sharing this information online.

RIP all those who are named in these lists.

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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR’S NOTES:
The information from this paper is reformatted to only include the people’s name, age [when given], marital status (when given for adults), and gender/mother’s name [when given].

In addition to that information, these paper includes notation about the people’s occupation [given as “Labour”], their disabilities, whether people [such as older people] were able to work, and where their spouse lived if they weren’t on the same farm/had the same owner. Some of that information is given under the heading of “Remarks” which I’ve left out of this reformatted list. This excerpt also doesn't include the notes at the end of this government archived paper.

George Washington used the word “Ditto” instead of written the same words that were used in that list before that name. For instance, “His wife” is given as “Ditto” if the words “His wife” were given before that name. Sometimes GW didn’t write either “His wife” or Ditto, but merely wrote the name of the wife.] For both of these entries, I’m writing “His wife” in brackets [Example: “George [His wife] Lydia”].

George Washington included the notation ""passed labr" which probably means "no longer able to work"

This pancocojams excerpt also doesn't include the information that was given about where the marital partners lived (when they lived away from the particular farm that is being enumerated on that list).

I added a hyphen to separate the name from the marital information/name or the mother's name.

When there wasn’t a space, I also added a space between the words “His wife” and the wife’s name.

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Note that the name "Betty D[avis] (listed in Part I of this series) is written this way in that list. It's a coincidence that a White woman who is known as "Bette Davis" became a famous actress in the United States and that same White woman is also known because of the Kim Carnes song "Betty Davis Eyes". Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Davis for information about the actress "Bette Davis".

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It’s interesting to note how many of George Washington’s enslaved people were married (since the USA history that I remembering learning in school/college indicated that enslaved Black people in the USA couldn’t be married). It’s also interesting to read how many of the married couples that are listed in this paper had to live apart from each other on another farm and/or with another owner.

It's also interesting to note that most of the names of enslaved Black people in this 1799 paper were considered to be "standard" American names in the late 18th century, and most of those names are still standard American names now (in 2020).

These personal names could have been given to these enslaved people by their mothers or by other Black people, or by White people. These names could also have been self-selected by the people themselves.
I was interested to note that a few of these enslaved Black people in this 1799 paper had surnames (family names). For instance: "Alce- 26-[Husband] Lears John" and "Betty- 20- [Husband] Lears Reuben."

Most of these surnames appear to be tied to what labor the person did- for example "Sall Twine- 38- [husband] Gardr George" and "Grace- 35- [Husband] Cartr Jack". ("Sall Twine" may indicate that Sall was a twin). Notice that these last names appear most often [only?) for the men on that list.

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[PART II OF THIS PANCOCOJAMS BLOG SERIES]

WASHINGTON'S SLAVE LIST, JUNE 1799
[extracted from] “Washington’s Slave List, June 1799,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed September 29, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-04-02-0405. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 4, 20 April 1799 – 13 December 1799, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, pp. 527–542.]

[...]

"DOWER RIVER FARM
Names age
Ben -70- [Wife] Peg
Breechy -60- Ruth his wife
Johny- 39- Wife Esther
Richmond- 20- No Wife
Ned- 20
Heuky- 17- Son to Agnes
Joe- 22
Esther -40- Husbd Johny
Doll -58- Husbd Natt

Lydia -50 -[Husband] Smith Geo
Agnes -36- [Husband] Sambo
Alce- 26-[Husband] Lears John
Fanny- 30-[Husband] Alexanders
Betty- 20- [Husband] Lears Reuben
Doll -16 -No husbd -Daugh. to Doll
Cecelia -14 -No husbd - [Daughter to Agnes]
Jack -12- Son to Doll
Anderson- 11- [Son] to Agnes
Lydia- 11 -Daughr to Lydia

Children
Ralph- 9- Son to Sall
Charity- 2- Daughr [to Sall]
Charles -1 -Son [to Sall]
Davy
6 }
4 Cornelia’s Childn dece[ase].
2
Lewis
Alce
Suckey- 4 -Daughtr to Alce
Jude- 1- [Daughter to Alce]
Milley- 1- Daughr to Betty
Peter -9 -Son to Doll
Hannah -Husbd Ned
Workers 19
Children 10
Cook 1 making 30
Altogether at this Farm 57.

GW DOGUE RUN FARM
Names age
Ben- 57- Wife- Peg
Long Jack- 60- Wife Molly
Dick -46- [Wife] Charity
Carter Jack- 40- Grace
Simon -20 -No Wife
Lawrence- 14 -Son to Matilda GW
Judy- 50 -Husbd Gabriel
Molly— 45- [Husband] long Jack
Charity- 42 [Husband] Dick
Priscilla -36-[Husband] Slamin Joe
Linney- 27- No husband

Agnes -25- Husbd Will Mann
Sarah- 20- No Husband
Betty -16- [No husband]
Sophia -14-Siller’s daughr
Savary -13- daughr to Siller

Children
Penny- 11 [daughter to Siller]
Israel- 10- Son [to Siller]
Isrias- 3-[Son to Siller]
Christopher- 1- Son [to Siller]
Fomison- 11- Daughr to Charity
Dick -3- [Daughter to Charity]
Bartley -6- Ditto to Linney
Matilda- 1- Daughr [to Linney]
Lucy -2- [Daughter] to Sarah
Guy -2- Son to Agnes
Hannah -60- No Husbd
Workers 16
Children 10
Pass’d labr 1 together 27

DOWER DOGUE RUN FARM
Names age
Lucy- 50 Husbd- Smith Natt
Sall Twine- 38- [husband] Gardr George
Grace- 35- [Husband] Cartr Jack
Peg -30- [Husband] Ben
Kate -18- [Husband] a Negro of Moreton’s
Ned -14- Son to Lucy

Children
Teney- 10- Daughr to Lucy
Barbary- 11- Daughr to Sall T.
Abbay- 10- [Daughter to Sall T.
Hannah -4 -[Daughter to Sall T.]
George- 1- Son [to Sall T.]
Roger- 10 -[Son] to Grace
Molly -6- Daugr [to Grace]
Jenny -3- [Daughter to Grace]

Billy- 6- Son to Peg
Fendal- 2- {Son to Peg]
Peg -8 Mo.- Daughr [to Peg]
Passed Labour
Sue -70- No Husband
Workers 6
Children 11
Pass’d labr 1 Making 18
Whole amt at this Farm 45

GW UNION FARM
Names age
London- 64- No wife
Joe- 24
Edy- 26- Husbd Davy
Children
Sarah- 6- Daughr to Edy
Nancy- 1- {Daughter to Edy]
Passed labr
Flora- 64- No Husband
Workers 3
Children 2
Pass’d labr 1 Making 6

DOWER UNION FARM
Names age
Sam Kitt- 78 -Wife [no name given, different location]
Cæsar- 50- No Wife
Paul- 36- [No wife]
John -16- Son to Betty
Betty- 62- No husbd
Lucy -50 -Husbd at [no name given, different location]
Fanny -36- [Husband] Charles
Jenny -34-[Husband] Mrs Washns George
Rachell- 34- No Husband
Milly- 22- [No husband]
Lucretia- 20- [No husband]
Gideon- 13- Son to Betty

Jamie- 11-[Son] to Fanny
Ephraim- 11- [Son] to Rachel
Children
Davy- 8- [Son to Rachel]
Guss- 3-[Son to Rachel]
Beck- 4- Daughr [to Rachel]
Eneas- 1- Son [to Rachel]
Elizabeth- 9- Daughr to Doll
Suckey- 11-[Daughter] to Doll at Mrs W.
Elias- 2 Mo.- [Son] to Doll at Mrs W
Daphne -5- Daughr to Fanny
Charles- 1- Son [to Fanny]
Felicia -7 -Daughr to Jenny
Jonathan -3- Son to [Jenny]
Hellam- 1-{Son to Jenny]
Diana- 1- Daughr to Milly
Jesse -6- Son to Patt dead
Passed labour
Daphne- 70- No Husband
Doll -52 Lame & pretds to be so
Workers 14
Children 14
Non-Workrs 2 Making 30
Whole amount at this Farm exclusive of French’s Neg[roe]s 36

[Pancocojams Editor's Note: The RECAPITULATION section isn’t included in this pancocojams post.]

A LIST OF NEGROS HIRED FROM MRS FRENCH
Names Ages
Will
Abram [Wife] Nancy
Paschall - No wife lately lost Cornelia
Tom -No wife
Isaac
Moses -[No wife]
James- 24-
Julius- 23
Spencer -20
Sabine -60 -Husband [no name given]
Lucy- 55-[Husband] McCarty’s George
Daphne- 40 [Husband] [no name given]
Delia- 35- No Husband
Grace- 28- Husband Mrs Washns Davy
Siss -25-[Husband] Jack Ditto
Milly- 18- No Husband
Nancy- 16- [No husband]
Hannah- 14- [No husband]
Daniel- 16- Son of Delia’s
Isaac- 14 - [Son] of Rose deceased
Matilda -13- Daughr of Daphne
Betty- 13- [Daughter of] Delia
Briney- 12- {Daughter of] Lucy
Grace- 12- [daughter of] Rose deceased
Children
Stately- 10- Son of Lucy’s
Renney- 6- Daughr [of Lucy]
Raison -3-[Daughter of Lucy]
Morgan -2 - Son [of Lucy]
Phœnix -1- [Son of Lucy]
Polly -9 -Daughr of Daphne’s
Maria -2 - [Daughter of Daphne]
Jack -7- Son of Delia
Julia -4- Daugh [of Delia]
Nelly -2- [Daughter of Delia]
Ambrose- 1- Son [of Delia]
Bob -10- [Son] of Grace
Sall -8- Daugh.[of Grace]
Judy -4 -[Daughter of Grace]
Augusta- 1 [Daughter of Grace]
Nancy- 10- [Daughter] of Sabine
Men 9
Women 9
Workg Boy’s & Girls 6
Children 16 In all 40"

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This concludes Part II of this three part pancocojams series.

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part III of a three part pancocojams series that excerpts a 1799 paper that was written by George Washington, the first President of the United States. That paper lists enslaved Black people who were owned by or otherwise controlled by George Washington.

Part III of this series highlights the names or nicknames from George Washington's 1799 of slaves that I believe are of African or Arabic origin.

Part III of this series highlights names (or nicknames) from that entire George Washington's 1799 paper of enslaved people that would be considered unusual now, but may have been relatively common for Black people and non-Black people in the 18th century.

In addition, Part III highlights what I consider to be other unusual names from that 1799 paper which may not have been common in the 18th century.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/02/names-of-enslaved-black-people-on.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. Part I of this series presents some of the names from a paper listing George Washington's slaves that he wrote in June 1799. [These lists are divided into Part I and Part II only because of blog space considerations.]

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/02/names-of-enslaved-black-people-on.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. Part I of this series presents some of the names from a paper listing George Washington's slaves that he wrote in June 1799. [These lists are divided into Part I and Part II only because of blog space considerations.]

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The content of this post is presented for historical and linguistic purposes.

I'm most interested in documenting the types of names and nicknames that were used by these Black enslaved people, i.e. names that would be considered "standard" in the United States at that time, and names/nicknames that would be considered unusual during that time, including names that can be traced to West African languages or Arabic.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to the government archives for sharing this information online.

RIP all those who are named in these lists.

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[PART III OF THIS PANCOCOJAMS BLOG SERIES]
All of the names in this post are given in alphabetical order within their sub-section and are numbered consecutively within their sub-section.

A. NAMES FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON'S 1799 LIST THAT ARE FROM TRADITIONAL AFRICAN LANGUAGES OR FROM ARABIC
1. Abbay-[given as a female name in that 1799 paper]- perhaps a corrupted form of the Twi (Akan) female name "Yaaba, Yaa- female born on Thursday"

2. Juba [given as a male name]- found in a number of Wet African languages
From https://web.ccsu.edu/afstudy/upd4-3.html
Vol. IV, no. 3 (Summer 1997) Africa Update Archives: “African Languages and Ebonics" by Dr. Katherine Harris, Central Connecticut State University
...", Juba, one of the day names given to a male child along the Guinea coast, was also a nickname given to a girl born on Monday in slave communities to describe "tomboy" (1620s-1800). The name Juba, which was fairly common among African men in the l7th and l8th centuries, was also the name of a region in modern Kenya/Somalia and Sudan."

3. Mink [given as a male name in that paper "Will-Mink"]- "Mink" may be a form of "Mingo", which is derived from "Mandingo"
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandingo_people_of_Sierra_Leone
"Mandinka people of Sierra Leone (commonly referred to as the Mandingo, Mandinka or Malinke) is a major ethnic group in Sierra Leone and a branch of the Mandinka people of West Africa"...

4. "Nanny" - from Twi (Ghana/Ivory Coast) name/title "nana".
From http://www.odwirafo.com/nanasom.html
[in] "the Twi language of the Akan people of Ghana and Ivory Coast, Nana is a gender-neutral title representing the highest office in society. It is also a term used to denote Grandmother, Grandfather, Elderess, Elder, venerable Ancestress and venerable Ancestor."

Also, Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/09/what-nana-means-in-akan-culture-its-use.html

5. Sambo [given as a male name]
From http://www.answers.com/topic/sambo-3"Oxford Companion to African American Literature":
"Variants of the name Sambo can be found in several African cultures, including Samba in Bantu; Samb and Samba in Wolof; Sambu in Mandingo; and Sambo in Hausa, Mende, and Vai."

Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-origin-meanings-of-word-sambo-means.

6. Senah and Sina [given as female names]
These names may have come from the Arabic female name "Sena"http://muslimbabynames.hawramani.com/sena/ meaning "glory", "honor", "greatness"

7. Teney [given as female names], probably a form of the female name "Tene": origin West African/meaning given as "Love" https://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/snccdigitalgateway/DS_BookofAfricanNames.pdf

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B. NAMES FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON'S 1799 PAPER THAT ARE UNUSUAL IN THE 21st CENTURY (but may have been common in the 18th century for Black people in the United States and perhaps also for White people in the USA during that time)
1. Hagar [used as a female name in that 1799 paper] -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagar
"Hagar (Hebrew: הָגָר, Hāḡār, of uncertain origin;[1] Arabic: هَاجَر‎‎ Hājar; Greek: Ἁγάρ, Hagár; Latin: Agar) is a biblical person in the Book of Genesis. She was an Egyptian slave of Sarah,[2] who gave her to Abraham to bear a child. The product of the union was Abraham's firstborn, Ishmael, the progenitor of the Ishmaelites. Various commentators have connected her to the Hagrites, perhaps as their eponymous ancestor.[3][4][5][6]"...

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2. Sukey [used as a female name], also spelled in that paper as "Sucky" and "Sakey"- nickname for the female name "Susan"

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C. OTHER UNUSUAL NAMES/NICKNAMES ON THIS LIST (which may not have been common in the 18th century USA & aren't common in the 21st century USA)
1. Alla [used as a female name in that 1799 paper] - perhaps from "Allah"
2. Barbary [used as a female name in that 1799 paper] - perhaps a variant form of the female name "Barbara" with the popular "y" ending; I doubt that that name referred to the geographic location "The Barbary Coast"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Coast
3. Beck [used as a female name] - a form of the nickname "Becky" [from the female name "Rebecca"]
4. Breechy [used as a male name] - origin?
5. Briney-[used as a female name] - origin?
6. Darcus - [used as a female name] - perhaps a variant form of the Greek name "Dorcus"https://www.sheknows.com/baby-names/name/dorcas/
7. Delphy [used as a female name] probably a nickname for the Latin female name "Delphinia" or the French female name "Delphine"
8. Dolshy [used as a female name] - perhaps a nickname for the Latin female name "Dulce" or "Dulcina"http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Dulcina
9. Elvey [used as a female name] - may be a shortened form of "Elvira"
10. Eneas [used as a male name] - origin?
11. Fendal [used as a male name] -origin?
12. Fomison [used as a female name] - origin?
13. Gunna [used as a ___ name] - origin?
14. Hellam [used as a male name] - origin?
15. Heuky- [used as a male name] -probably from a nickname for Hercules
16. Isrias- [used as a male name] - origin?
17. Leanthe [used as a female name] - perhaps a form of the female name "Leana"http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Leana
18. Letty [used as a female name], probably from the name "Leticia" [in the 21st century, a relatively common form of this name is "Latisha")
19. Linney [used as a female name] - origin?
20. Mima [used as a female name] - perhaps a shortened form of the female name "Jemima"https://nameberry.com/babyname/Jemima
21. Myrtilla [used as female name], a variant form of the Greek name "Myrtle
22. Oney [used as a ___ name] - origin?
23. Paschall [used as a male name]- probably from the word "Paschal"https://www.thefreedictionary.com/paschal meaning "passover", Easter".
24. Phœnix [used as a male name]; refers to the phoenix bird
25. Raison [used as a female name] - origin?
26. Renney [used as a female name] - origin?
27. Sabine [used as a female name]- perhaps referring to "Sabine, Latin Sabinus, plural Sabini, member of an ancient Italic tribe located in the mountainous country east of the Tiber River. They were known for their religious practices and beliefs, and several Roman institutions were said to have derived from them. The story recounted by Plutarch that Romulus, the founder of Rome, invited the Sabines to a feast and then carried off (raped) their women, is legendary."... https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sabine
28. Savary [used as a female name] - origin?
29. Stately [used as a male name]- origin?
30. Urinah [used as a female name] - origin?
31. Viner [used as a female name] - origin?
32. Vinie - [used as a female name], perhaps a form of the female name and place name "Venecia", Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinie_Burrows for information about the African American Broadway actress Vinie Burrows [Born Vinie Harrison November 15, 1924 (age 95)[1]"...
33. W. Muclus [used as a male name] - origin?

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D. NAMES IN THAT 1799 PAPER THAT ARE USUALLY CONSIDERED SURNAMES IN THE 21st CENTURY (USA)
1. Anderson [used as a male name in that 1799 paper]
2. Bartley [used as a ___name]
3. Burwell [used as a male name]
4. Caesar [used as a __ name]
5. Forrester [used as a male name]
4. Gutridge -probably the name "Guthridge"that is now only used as a surname.
5. Hanson [used as a male name]
6. Siller [used as a female name]
7. Simms [used as a male name]
7. Townshend [used as a male name] ; probably aa variant form of the surname "Townsend"
8. Wilson [used as a male name]

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E. COMMON NAMES IN THE 20th/21st CENTURY USA THAT ARE SPELLED DIFFERENTLY IN GEORGE WASHINGTON’S 1799 PAPER
1. Alce [used as a female name in that 1799 paper], This is probably the female name "Alice".
2. Aggy- [used as a female name], This is a nickname for the female name "Agatha"
3. Amie [used as a female name], This is probably the female name "Amy".
4. Chriss [used as male name]
5. Edy [used as a female name; nickname for Edith, spelled "Edie" now
6. Guss- [used as male name], spelled "Gus" now
7. Hanh [used as female name, probably the female name "Hannah".
8. Isbel [used as a female name], probably a form of the female name "Isabelle"/ “Isobel”
9. Johny [used as a male name], spelled "Johnny" now
10. Milley- [used as a female name], spelled “Millie” now (nickname for the female name “Mildred”)
6. Natt [used as a male name], spelled "Nat" now, (nickname for the names "Nathaniel" or "Nathan")
7. Rachell- [used as a female name], spelled "Rachel" now
8. Sall [used as a female name], spelled "Sal" now, a form of the nickname "Sally" for the name "Sarah"
9. Siss [used as a female name], may be a nickname for the female name "Cecilia"; also given as the nickname "Sissy" in the 20th century

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OTHER UNUSUAL NAMES FROM THAT 1799 PAPER
Place names:
1. Dundee-[used as a male name]
2. Richmond-[used as a male name]
3. London [used as a male name]

Other Nouns:
1. Boatswain [used as a male name]
2. Doll [used as a female name], usually given as "Dolly in 20th and in 21st century
3. Emery given as a male name [seldom used name in 20th 21st century
4. Virgin [used as a female name] , probably a variant form of the name "Virginia"

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EXAMPLES OF TWO NAMES GIVEN IN THAT 1799 PAPER
Occupation + Name:
1. Carter Jack
2. Gardr George
3. Smith Natt [blacksmith]?

Name + Physical Description:
1. Kate long -18- daughr of Kate
2. Kate sht-[probably the word "short"]

Physical Description + Name:
1. Long Jack - meaning a tall man ?

Other Description:
1. Slamin Joe - meaning ?

First & Last Name:
1. Tom Davis
2. Betty D[avis]
3. Sam Kitt

Last Name + First Name:
1. Lears John
2. Lears Reuben

Name + Ethnic Group:
1. Will—Mink ]Mink= "Mingo" from "Mandingo"

Location + Name:
1. Bay Suke [Bay Sukey]

Name + Twin [birth] :
1. Sall Twine

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This pancocojams post presents some information about United States presidents who owned slaves.

This post also presents information about a paper George Washington wrote in 1799 which listed the names of slaves he owned and slaves he managed for a woman he knew.

This post also includes a sub-set of names from that 1799 list that surprised me because they appeared so contemporary and don't fit the stereotype I learned about what names enslaved people in the United States would have had.

The content of this post is presented for historical and onomastic purposes.

All copyright remains with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.

RIP all those who have ever been enslaved.

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INFORMATION ABOUT UNITED STATES
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States_who_owned_slaves
"This is a list of presidents of the United States who owned slaves. Slavery in the United States was legal from its beginning as a nation, having been practiced in North America from early colonial days. The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution formally abolished slavery, though the practice effectively ended only after the end of the American Civil War. In total, twelve presidents owned slaves at some point in their lives, eight of whom owned slaves while serving as president. George Washington was the first president to own slaves, including while he was president. Zachary Taylor was the last president to own slaves during his presidency, and Ulysses S. Grant was the last president to have owned a slave at some point in his life.

Slave owning was common among early presidents; of the first twelve, only John Adams (2) and his son John Quincy Adams (6) never owned slaves, although two of the others (Martin Van Buren and William Henry Harrison) did not own slaves while serving as president.

The U.S. president who owned the most slaves was Thomas Jefferson, with 600+ slaves,[1] followed by George Washington, with 200 slaves. The presidents who owned the fewest slaves were Martin van Buren and Ulysses S. Grant, with one slave each.

Presidents who owned slaves
[reformatted from a chart]

1st President - George Washington
Approximate number of slaves - 317
held slaves while in office - Yes (1789–1797)
Notes: Washington was a major slaveholder before, during, and after his presidency. His will freed his slaves pending the death of his widow, though she freed his slaves within a year of his death. See George Washington and slavery for more details."...
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From https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/slavery/ten-facts-about-washington-slavery/
Despite having been an active slave holder for 56 years, George Washington struggled with the institution of slavery and spoke frequently of his desire to end the practice. At the end of his life, Washington made the decision to free all his slaves in his 1799 will - the only slave-holding Founding Father to do so."...

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INFORMATION ABOUT THE 1799 PAPER WHICH LISTED NAMES OF GEORGE WASHINGTON'S SLAVES
[extracted from] “Washington’s Slave List, June 1799,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed September 29, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-04-02-0405. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 4, 20 April 1799 – 13 December 1799, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, pp. 527–542.]

“Washington’s Slave List, June 1799
[June 1799]
Editorial Note
The list of Mount Vernon slaves which GW drew up, probably some time in June 1799, included those slaves owned by him outright, those who were controlled by him as part of Martha Washington’s dowry, and a number who were rented by him in 1786 by contract with Mrs. Penelope French at the time he acquired her life rights to land that she owned on Dogue Run.

The slaves Washington owned in his own right came from several sources. He was left eleven slaves by his father’s will; a portion of his half brother Lawrence Washington’s slaves, about a dozen in all, were willed to him after the death of Lawrence’s infant daughter and his widow; and Washington purchased from time to time slaves for himself, mostly before the Revolution.

Washington also hired for varying periods of time individual slaves, usually skilled artisans, from neighbors and acquaintances. These do not appear on this slave list."...

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NAMES I WAS SURPRISED TO FIND IN A 1799 PAPER LISTING THE NAMES OF GEORGE WASHINGTON'S SLAVES
I have to admit that more than I realized I had accepted the stereotypical version of slavery in the United States that I had been taught and was socialized by movies, books, and television to believe that all Black slaves had names like "Sambo", "Sukey", "Juba", and "Jemima". (Each of these names are on Washington's 1799 list).
Other names have connotations of being proper or elite which don't conform to the stereotyped image of enslaved Black people in the United States.

In that mass media promulgated version of slavery in the United States names such as "Roger", "Jonathan", "Daphne", and "Sophia" (which are also on George Washington's 1799 list) seem incongruous.

Here are the names that surprised me from that 1799 list of George Washington's slaves (given in alphabetical order) :

MALE NAMES:
Ambrose
Anderson
Billy
Charles
Christopher
Elias
Gabriel
Gunner
Guy
Israel
Isaac
James
Jonathan
Julius
Lawrence
London
Morgan
Paschall
Paul
Richmond
Roger
Simon
Spencer

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FEMALE NAMES:
Agnes
Bette Davis
Cecilia
Cornelia
Daphne
Diana
Felicia
Grace
Judy
Julia
Lucretia
Lydia
Maria
Matilda
Priscilla
Rachel
Sophia

Click these pancocojams posts for a complete lists of names from that 1799 paper:

https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/02/names-of-enslaved-black-people-on.html
https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/02/names-of-enslaved-black-people-on_18.html

Also, click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/02/africanarabic-names-other-non-standard.html for a pancocojams post entitled "African & Arabic Names & Other "Non-Standard American" Names In George Washington's 1799 Paper That Lists Names Of His Slaves".

You may not agree that some (or all) of these names are surprising or there may be other names on those lists that surprise you as being "slave names"..

Needless to say, regardless of their names, slavery is an absolutely awful institution for anyone, regardless of their names. Rest in peace (or happier reincarnations) to all those who are listed in that paper and all to people in history who were ever enslaved.

And click https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36416751 for a BBC article entitled "What does modern slavery look like?"

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This pancocojams post showcases the YouTube sound file entitled "The 100 Greatest Soul Songs of the 70s Unforgettable Soul Music Full Playlist".

The record list (with the record's beginning time on this playlist) is included in this post along with selected comments from the discussion thread of this YouTube sound file.

The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all song writers, singers, and musicians who are featured in these songs. Thanks also to all those quoted in this post, with a hat tip to Mark Klutcharch for adding the song titles in that sound file's discussion thread. Thanks to Greg Schulz for producing and publishing this mix.

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SHOWCASE SOUND FILE: The 100 Greatest Soul Songs of the 70s Unforgettable Soul Music Full Playlist

Greg Schulz, Nov 6, 2017 [length 2:50:35]
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Statistics as of February 19, 2020 at 10:54 AM
total # of views- 3,507,961
total # of likes- 32K
total # of dislikes -2.8K
total # of comments

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RECORD LIST
Here's that record list that was added by Mark Klutcharch, 2019 (reformatted in numerical order from paragraph form for this blog post)
1. What's Goin' On
2. Let's Stay Together 3:48
3. If You Don't Know Me by Now 7:09
4. Just My Imagination 10:30
5. Me and Mrs Jones 14:26
6. Mercy Mercy Me 19:04
7. Midnight Train to Georgia 22:20
8. Rock With You 26:11
9. Best of My Love 29:36
10. Wake Up Everybody 33:18
11. You Make Me Feel Brand New 40:50
12. Distant Lover 46:26
13. Superfly 50:41
14. Close the Door? 54:36
15. Love Train 59:20
16. Lovin' You 1:02:16
17. Have Ya Seen Her 1:06:01
18. Living For the Love of You 1:10:56
19. Always and Forever 1:16:33
20. Backstabbers 1:21:22
21. Don't want you to see me cryin' 1:24:26
22. Killing Me Softly With His Song 1:27:52
23. Tell Me Somethin' Good 1:32:37
24. I'll Be Around 1:37:15
25. Livin' For The City 1:40:27
26. Betcha By Golly Wow 1:44:07
27. Can't Stop 'Til You Get Enough 1:47:53
28. Keep On Dancin' 1:53:57
29. You Know How To Love Me 2:00:00
30. Off The Wall 2:07:34
31. Oh Girl 2:11:21
32. What You Do For Love 2:15:10
33. Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now 2:19:58
34. I Want You 2:23:35
35. We Are Family 2:27:32
36. Shinin' Star 2:30:52
37. Who's That Lady 2:33:43
38. I'm Easy 2:39:16
39. I'll Take You There 2:43:33
40. Love Won't Let Me Wait 2:46:47

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SELECTED COMMENTS
1. slmeucalesa1, 2018
"Family Barbecue Music........what y'all know about that? :)

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2. blackpede gurl, 2018
"Best music of all times i was a young girl in watching the grown folks play cards and dominos we will never get those days back 😍💯"

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3. MigGiD B, 2020
"I was just telling some youngsters about our parents card and dominos parties. Those were such wonderful times. Such beautiful people and the absolute best music. I truly miss those days."

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4. Mduduzi Tshabalala, 2018
"Growing up in the 80's our dads and uncles would serenade us with records like these. RIP to the fallen heroes who taught us to be men and to love unconditionally"

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5. jmalcolmg123, 2018
"What a nice comment"

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6. Artist XX, 2018
"Your welcome young blood"

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7. dean markellos, 2019
"My dad and uncles the same. they gave us the right tools. it is up to us to use them right."

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8. Marilyn Robinson, 2019
"I totally agree! I remember watching soul train on Saturday and watching my uncles showing off their cool dance moves...EVERY Saturday! Families don't do this anymore...so much hate and and competition...so sad."

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9. Felicia Jones, 2019
"Very nice comment!
I think of my late relatives playing these songs during our 4th of July picnics ❤
I miss those innocent times"

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10. Jamie Green, 2019
"And lets not forget the moms, mine would sing Aretha and Gladys etc and take my brothers and I around to singspirations- Amen!

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11. Stephanie Phifer, 2018
"Nothing like Old School music...#loveit!!!"

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12. Lecia Elam, 2018
"These days of good ole soul music where you could understand the lyrics, along with harmonizing, angelic voices, I'm so glad I was around to here it all.......lawd have mercy, makes me wanna 😢"

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13. Gena L., 2018
"When music was absolutely soul touching, thought provoking and pure sounds. R.I.P."

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14. J R, 2019
"Born in 67....I tell my kids all the time the 70s was the BEST Era to grow up in! I'd give anything to go back to those days!! How many of you remember roller disco at the local rollerskating rink?? Best days of my life growing up! ❤"

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15. GGs Handsomeboy, 2019
"I remember we walked everywhere, used pay phones to call friends, got rides with our friends from neighbors or family, ate from ice cream trucks, had school talent shows and sockhops on Friday's before school. We actually danced and walked a lot!"

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16. Midalia Lebron, 2019
"I just love how black music can bring people together so easily like this. Love you all."

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17. Logan, 2020
"One of the very mixed true Classic Soul collection out there...hit after another hit, oh man...5 stars, all hands down.
This is going to be my favorite audio/video going to and from work everyday. Thanks “Greg Z” for uploading it and taking the time to picked the very best songs!"

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This is Part I of a three part pancocojams series that showcases the Nigerian song "Saro" by Niniola.

Part I showcases the official YouTube video of this song and presents its Yoruba lyrics with an English translation.

Part II presents information about Niniola as well as information about the song "Saro".

Part II presents examples of comments from the official YouTube video of Niniola's song "Saro" with a focus on comments include terms or saying that come from African American English.

The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to and thanks to all those who are associated with this video. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publisher of this video on YouTube.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO: NINIOLA SARO (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

OfficialNiniola, Jan 4, 2018

As we start the New Year, NINIOLA kicks off from where she stopped in 2017...
Following the successful release of her Debut album "THIS IS ME", with banging Singles like MARADONA and SICKER still tearing the airwaves...The Nigerian Queen of Afro-House has teamed up yet again with ace video director Clarence Peter on the SARZ produced song titled SARO.
SARO comes as the 3rd official Single off the Album, as NINIOLA promises to take us on an interesting journey in 2018.
So Sit back and enjoy as NINIOLA kicks off our 2018...

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Statistics as of Feb. 20, 2020

total # of views- 1,468,944
total # of likes-6.9K
total # of dislike-109
total # of comments-446

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LYRICS: SARO
(as sung by Niniola)

Saro mi
: My lover
Solida
Nini de
Solidaaa
Solidarity from me to you
Just like when you go in war front
Solidarity from me to you
Baby i will stand by, di gben gben

Fun mi leyo kan
: Give me one more time
Fun mi nikan siiii
: Give me one more time
Fun mi leyo kannn
: Give me one more time
Saro mi saro mi saro miii
: My lover! My lover! My lover!
Fun mi nikan siii
Fun mi leyokann
Saro mi na
Aro re n san mi, saro mi na
: I’m longing for you, my lover

Kalakuta na the only place for me to be somebody
: Kalakuta Republic is the only place I can be somebody
Kalakuta na the only place for me to heal say
: Kalakuta Republic is the only place to heal
If i catch you with another girl you know say you no fit escape
Dokita mi mo pe i fit commit
: My doctor knows I’m crazy
Sarooo
Aro re n san mi, saro mi na
Sarooooooo, aro re n san mi sa ro mi na
Aro re n san mi saro mi na

Fun mi leyokann, fun mi nikan siii
Sarooo, marooo, weyooo jije ko salo
My own, my bone, je tomorrow ko gbe oruka simi looowo
: My own, my bone, put a ring on my finger tomorrow
Malo ro malo ro pe, ole ri lo lo jeje
: Don’t even think! Don’t even think!
Malo ro malo ro peeee
: Don’t even think!
Malo ro malo ro peeee, o le ji jo ko sale ehhhhh

Kalakuta na the only place for me to be somebody
Kalakuta na the only place for me to heal, say
If i catch you with another girl you know say you no fit escape
Dokita mi mo pe i fit commit
Sarooo
Aro re n san mi, saro mi na
Aro re n san mi, saro mi na
Aro re n san mi, saro mi na
Saro mi na
Aro re n san mi, saro mi na
Aro re n san mi, saro mi na
Fun mi nikan siii, fun mi leyokann

Source: https://lyrixofafrica.com/lyrics/niniola-saro-lyrics Niniola Saro Lyrics + Translation
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The English translations are prefaced by the "colon" punctuation mark ":".
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Multiple commenters in the discussion thread for "Saro" by Niniola wrote that "Saro" is the name of the man who the singer loves. Given these comments, the word Saro" doesn't mean "lover".

Yoruba names are made by combining two elements. I don't know what the element "saro" means.

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part II of a three part pancocojams series that showcases the Nigerian song "Saro" by Niniola.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/02/nigerian-singer-niniola-saro-official.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. Part I showcases the official YouTube video of this song and presents its Yoruba lyrics with an English translation.

Part III presents examples of comments from the official YouTube video of Niniola's song "Saro" with a focus on comments include terms or saying that come from African American English.

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All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to and thanks to all those who are associated with this video. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publisher of this video on YouTube.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO: NINIOLA SARO (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

OfficialNiniola, Jan 4, 2018

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INFORMATION ABOUT NIGERIAN SINGER NINIOLA
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niniola
"Niniola Apata (born 15 December 1986),[1]Professionally known as Niniola, is a Nigerian singer and songwriter.[2] She participated in the sixth season of Project Fame West Africa in 2013.[3] After releasing her debut single "Ibadi", she was nominated for Most Promising Act to Watch at the 2015 Nigeria Entertainment Awards.[4]

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Career
Niniola participated in several social activities and competitions while attending secondary school.[5] She finished third runner-up in the sixth season of Project Fame West Africa.[6] During the competition, she performed a live rendition of "Limpopo" with Kcee, and also performed her Cobhams Asuquo-produced composition "Itura". She has cited Dolly Parton, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, The Cranberries, Madonna, Beyoncé and Angelique Kidjo as her key musical influences

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In 2017 Niniola went on to release another single titled MARADONA which went on to become a global hit.[11] MARADONA enjoyed a good 13 weeks on the South African charts and was at the No.1 spot for over 6 weeks.[12] The song MARADONA earned Niniola a BET Awards and SAMA nomination. [13][14] Since then Niniola has gone on to receive nods from International heavy weights like Drake, Timbaland and others.[15][16]

In 2019 elements of her single MARADONA were sampled on the LION KING "THE GIFT Album" by BEYONCE on the track FIND YOUR WAY BACK as she also appeared as a songwriter and composer of the song, which has gone on to get a Grammy nomination.[17]”...
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According to https://www.nairaland.com/1288918/traditional-yoruba-names-meanings/3, "niniola" means 'a child that brings wealth'.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2017/10/yoruba-nigerian-names-with-ola-prefix.html for the 2017 pancocojams post entitled Yoruba (Nigerian) Names With Ola Prefix Or Suffix (Adapted From a 2013 Nairaland.com Discussion Thread)

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EXCERPT FROM ARTICLE ABOUT NINIOLA'S SONGS
From https://www.pulse.ng/entertainment/music/niniola-the-hidden-meaning-behind-her-hit-songs/z1d9rp6 Niniola: The hidden meaning behind her hit songs
EHIS OHUNYON 05/24/2018
..."Niniola has been saying a lot in her songs, from sexual innuendos to an overtone of carrying out the act, perfectly masked in her chosen language of expression and sometimes there is a need to strip the song bare to understand the out of view messages.

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Artistry
Niniola describes her style of music as Afro-house, a blend of Afrobeat and house music.[18] Niniola's lyrics are mostly written in Yoruba. In an online interview with Gbolahan Adeyemi of TalkGlitz Media, Niniola said the Yoruba language makes her song's delivery beautiful.”...

Niniola's This is Me album is a 13 track body of work delivered in a mix of English and Yoruba language, thriving on short verses and melodious hooks, assisted by Sarz's outrageous beats.

The album had hit singles like Maradona, Sicker, Magun and more, but perhaps distracted not just by the beauty of her voice, many including the music industry's gate-keepers, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) get lost in the moment and never really take time to understand the real message of her songs, that are usually armed with expressive sensuality and sexuality.

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Niniola knows that sex sells, and this she is clearly selling without inhibitions, and even though she is not the first to latch on our human cravings in promoting her songs, she is perhaps the best at openly concealing it.

For all the good that the English language does, it is limiting in camouflaging and accurate description when it involves art, so for Niniola, the Yoruba language is the handy tool for hiding clues and euphemisms in her lyrics, keeping the true meaning far from the untrained ear.

Niniola is a very talented and soulful singer, this she has shown in singles like Akara Oyinbo and Saro, but the universal truth of the music industry is that sex sells and she has found her pathway to packaging it right.”...

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EXCERPT FROM ARTICLE ABOUT NINIOLA'S SONG "SARO"
From https://thenativemag.com/music/best-new-music-saro-niniola-album-debut/"BEST NEW MUSIC: NINIOLA’S “SARO” IS A SWEET WAR CRY SOLD AS AN ENERGETIC LOVE SONG" November 1, 2017 By Toye Sokunbi
..."Though primarily set on Afro-house, This Is Me threads around traditional R&B, Afropop and African Folk music amongst other divergent sounds, to converge at the wispiness of Niniola’s feather-light vocals and her poetry-infused songwriting. Niniola naturally uses a combination of Afropop’s genre-blending and electronic experimentations, thus it’s not hard to imagine an artist that constantly seeks inspiration from so far and wide will eventually lose the plot somewhere in the mix. Yet, with a tracklist of expertly composed energetic Afro-house songs, her long-awaited debut might as well be one of the most sonically cohesive projects of the year.

Like many tracks on This Is Me—however, inverted and (or) layered with Niniola’s pseudo-sexual references—“Saro” also tells a love story, it’s brilliance, however, is in presentation. Sarz who has been a complementing Robin to Niniola’s Batman for the past two years is credited for the purposefully bass-heavy percussive production on “Saro”. The track itself is recorded like a pulsating war cry, an energetic tribute—sort of—to freedom era music. Some of this symbolism surfaces when Niniola calls for solidarity, clamours for fire and pays homage to Fela’s Kalakuta Republic. It is noteworthy to mention here that one of reasons sampling is finicky in this part of the world is due to the low scale for inventiveness. Niniola’s “Saro” boasts of reaching for nostalgic elements without petering modern ideas at the salacious altar of lyrical sampling, a pitfall even her more celebrated contemporaries could not resist on “Sweet Love” by Wizkid, or “IF” and “Fall” by Davido.

Niniola has been self-proclaiming herself as the queen of Afro-house for a minute now, and “Saro” is a highlight of peak mastery and craftsmanship needed to validate such title/crown.
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