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Borborbor is a Ghanaian and Togolese traditional dance performed by the Ewe people from the mid-Volta region of Ghana and Southern Togo including Kpalime and Lomé.[1] The dance is performed especially during the festival of the chiefs and people of communities.[2] This dance is believed to have been originated by Mr. Francis Kudzo Nuatro in the 1950s.[3] It's a cultural and a social recreational dance performed by the Ewe people in the Volta Region of Ghana, an area north of the Anlo Ewe of southeastern Ghana and some Togelese.
The borborbor music has been internationally recognized for past half a century by Nketia, Jones and Amu before spreading to the ends of Chernoff, Agawu, Avorgbedor, Burns, Fiagbedzi, Dor, Pantaleoni, Locke and many others.[4]
History of Borborbor
[edit]Costumes
[edit]The dance is mainly female based and they wear colorful long garments with two white handkerchiefs[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Tomar, Kunal (2017-12-16). "BORBORBOR DANCE - GHANA: An African Tribal Dance - Page 3 of 4 - DanceAsk". Retrieved 2023-06-12.
- ^ "Hogbetsotso Festival". www.travel-to-discover-ghana.com. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
- ^ GNA (2020-07-27). "Remembering Francis Kodzo Nuatro, Borborbor Originator and Icon". Ghana News Agency. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
- ^ "Prologue: Nothing Has Been Done Before". Nothing Has Been Done Before: 1–14. 2017. doi:10.5040/9781501322051.0003.
- ^ "Borborbor dance in Ghana". Local Guides Connect. 2019-03-20. Retrieved 2025-07-19.
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