@@Arthurcates Is this Aku People of Gambia and Sierra Leone. Their Music sound like calypso Music of Trinidad and Tobago. Is very interesting and their Masquerade regalia awesome.
oRI AJANAKU KII SERU OMODE...this is Yoruba straight up! The head of an elephant is not a load for a child. even the names mentioned in the song are Yoruba names. Ashipa Ekundayo what the f
I heard it myself, i believe they are Aku people, the descendants of our people who were emancipated from enslavement and settled in Sierra Leone and Gambia.
My parents are Gambian and they always brought me to these masquerades but they never really explained to me what this means. I’m now trying to learn more about our traditional spirituality. Is there anything you can tell me ? I want to be more involved in my traditions
@@Mariatheemermaid These cultural activities were made popular to become a part and parcel of Gambian community events by the leadership of the Basiru Deen, Nuru Gillen, Musa Gabber, Abu Betts and Ebu John. At the end of the Peanut trade season, PAKINE is organizes as a relaxation week long event for celebration on a successful trade season. They would parade the King and the Queen and when a Member of a Secret society dies they will organize A DIE-MAN BAYGEE Sacred ceremony to bring the dead alive in a Pakine ceremony at Fitzgerald Street, Pignard Street and McDonald Street in Banjul. The Agba: Head of a Brach of Secret society The name for Ojeh society of Yoruba origin that emerged from among the so-called ‘liberated Africans’ i.e. in Freetown and the villages of the Sierra Leone peninsula in the course of the 19th century. Ceorle Awsa ( Ypruba Hausa) Aku Marabouts used to landing in Banjul and their customized arrival point was located at Clarkson Street at Kassa Gillen’s Home. Here they get directives and instruction and support system to settle in the capital. The meeting point in Banjul was at the house of Aunty Mai . The house is 160 years old and there is a storage of Agugu dresses and medicines in a locker which can only be open by a password. It is a coded secret word that only the spirits can understand for the secret locker to be opened. Auntu Mai Rahman , Alhaji Yadi Savage , Alhaji Oathman (Father of Diro and Sol Oathman). Alhaji Kasalieu Gillen were all were hosted in this compound on arrival in Banjul before they settled down privately. The Wollof Muslims from Senegal who settled much earlier in Banju,l during the building of the capital around 1860 and settled in Half die district of Banjul on the South side. These Wollofs were Sea and boat people coming from the coast of Senegal to look for work in the Gambia at the service of the British Empire. The wollof Muslims favoured the Hausas and the Yoruba who settled comfortably in the Muslim community and intermarried. Names through intermarried: Sallaha, Jallow, Fofana, Jarra, etc. In Georetown (Now Jangjanbure in the Central River Region of the Gambia, there was a Aku Marabout settlement and the families of Gillen, King, Lamine, Davis, Cole and the Savage made Georgetown their home. Georgetown was a capital town and thriving in Business. It was a trading post favoured by many Aku Marabouts trading in Peanuts and Merchandised goods. The Aku Marabouts were skilled people such as tailors, making the popular “Gaddardin”, fancy clothes and the popular LADIES PRINT, the woven woollen shoes called the “MOUKE” shoe and aroma ginger and other exotic spices and medicine. Its Yoruba name is Egungun which was corrupted by missionary writers to egugu or ago-agoo. Ojeh or Oje, the name by which it is widely known today, is the term for a society group or lodge. In the 20th century it spread among groups of young migrant workers outside of the peninsula and Ojeh groups are now to be found widely distributed throughout Sierra Leone, for example among the Temne. Ojeh ‘devils’ or masked dancers perform in a brightly variegated costume of coloured cloth that covers the head and reaches down to the calves. The face of the masker is concealed behind a grill of netting. Mbye Dibba of Primet Street in Banjul is a Bata drummer custodian of Ojeh culture. OGEH: Meaning a Spiritual masked Dancer ( A Pakine) OWOKO: Gambians called Oroko (Popular with Basiru Deen) ALARUBE : (Fancy Velvet dancer) MAKALO MAKALO (Kaloo Kaloo) BAYGHEE: (A simple Pakine) OKOSSA ( A you the beef/ Flow race) HUNTING Hunting Masquerade was organized by Christians which the devil dancer had only two horns dancing in the bush and responsible for killing the animals.The Horns are disguise for other Animals to think that the Man hunter is one of them since they only see the horns. ANIMATORS Grandmasters: Shriffo Adams, Basiru Deen, and Daniel Davis, Abu Betts, Mbye Jagne (Uncle Boy), Charles Nicols, Pa During, Mr. Smart, Nifi Camara, Saidou Camara,Colley Faye sr. , Abou Jobe Mbullah, Musa Cole, Banki, Aki Allen,Olu Roberts, Charles Dixon, Musa Cole,Prince Corrah, Kwaku Harris,and Agba Basiru Sarr Drum Set: Baas, Ababa, Rolling, lead, Tangba, Beat counters, Knowledge rivalry & Evil prevention Many of the older guys later became Islamic scholars and Imams and step out of the ceremonies but their place in the society was well preserves in its purity. These society elders could stop the rain and can cast spell to others who disobeyed their rites and spirits They would beat the ground with prayers and an Agugu will come out of the ground. This Abanshola was made popular in the 50s by late Basiru Deen (popularly known as AWOKO the fancy dance and fierce attacker of intruders in the society gathering ring. He was (a police Bike rider together with Sgt.Sawallo Faal, Badou Ndow, Basiru Faye). They were the Royal bikers of the British Governors in Banjul. In the 1920s, they stated to stage cultural masquerade shows for ceremonials and Knowledge rivalry. The AGUGU: The family Langley brought Pakine society to the Gambia. BONDO DEVIL; A fertility Masked organized by women for women alone. GAYREFE: A fancy Angel Face painted in white and body suit in silk costumes. HUNTING: Is with two horns only (A Christian ceremony). EGEREE: Is with Many horns due to modernization. Legends & Icons Abou Jallow, John Carew, Ousainou Carew, Abou Denton, Kassa Gillen, Nurainu Gillen, Aziz Coker, Gaira Lamin, Nuru Adams, Muntaga Gillen, Saffinu Savage, Amara Savage, Ebou Gillen (Dobson), Nuru Gillen (Gambia United), Uncle Makie Gillen, Asimi Cole, late Sana Cole, Amara Savage, Zainou Savage, Abdou Gillen, etc Most Aku marabout made England their home after retirement. They would migrate to UK at an older age. The few that made the Gambia their home are the Oudeen Deen, Abou Jallow, Basiru Sarr and many of the young generation have finally decided that home is where the heart is.
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I really love this culture and the music
I really love the culture
Love from Adaba Hunting
I miss these sweet day.. Stay bless Ekun Baba Bloff wit you... Happy Christmas..
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Knock knock, who is here 2020 December
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Nice song
This Song sound like yoruba music
It is partly yoruba
@@Arthurcates Is this Aku People of Gambia and Sierra Leone. Their Music sound like calypso Music of Trinidad and Tobago. Is very interesting and their Masquerade regalia awesome.
@@Eniola0ne yes they are aku people of the Gambia
It is Yoruba language. ijebu majorly "Awo mii ke" meaning the initiates are crying out.
Resettled emancipated Enslaved people of Aku in Sierra Leone and Gambia. Descendants of Ancient Yoruba.
ban banjul
I miss this Africa Gambia
Who still listing in 2020
Very good to see
like that zic
like that zic
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Kaboom nice na y🇬🇲🇬🇲♥️♥️♥️
The best hunting society is ekun baba odeh I really like this society
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We lead en others follow
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oRI AJANAKU KII SERU OMODE...this is Yoruba straight up! The head of an elephant is not a load for a child. even the names mentioned in the song are Yoruba names. Ashipa Ekundayo what the f
I heard it myself, i believe they are Aku people, the descendants of our people who were emancipated from enslavement and settled in Sierra Leone and Gambia.
Yes they are Akus in Gambia
ayyodele you are correct!
My parents are Gambian and they always brought me to these masquerades but they never really explained to me what this means. I’m now trying to learn more about our traditional spirituality. Is there anything you can tell me ? I want to be more involved in my traditions
Still interested to know? I could help
@@abdouliegaye6512 lol like how
@@Mariatheemermaid These cultural activities were made popular to become a part and parcel of Gambian community events by the leadership of the Basiru Deen, Nuru Gillen, Musa Gabber, Abu Betts and Ebu John.
At the end of the Peanut trade season, PAKINE is organizes as a relaxation week long event for celebration on a successful trade season.
They would parade the King and the Queen and when a Member of a Secret society dies they will organize A DIE-MAN BAYGEE Sacred ceremony to bring the dead alive in a Pakine ceremony at Fitzgerald Street, Pignard Street and McDonald Street in Banjul. The Agba: Head of a Brach of Secret society
The name for Ojeh society of Yoruba origin that emerged from among the so-called ‘liberated Africans’ i.e. in Freetown and the villages of the Sierra Leone peninsula in the course of the 19th century.
Ceorle Awsa ( Ypruba Hausa)
Aku Marabouts used to landing in Banjul and their customized arrival point was located at Clarkson Street at Kassa Gillen’s Home. Here they get directives and instruction and support system to settle in the capital. The meeting point in Banjul was at the house of Aunty Mai .
The house is 160 years old and there is a storage of Agugu dresses and medicines in a locker which can only be open by a password. It is a coded secret word that only the spirits can understand for the secret locker to be opened. Auntu Mai Rahman , Alhaji Yadi Savage , Alhaji Oathman (Father of Diro and Sol Oathman). Alhaji Kasalieu Gillen were all were hosted in this compound on arrival in Banjul before they settled down privately.
The Wollof Muslims from Senegal who settled much earlier in Banju,l during the building of the capital around 1860 and settled in Half die district of Banjul on the South side. These Wollofs were Sea and boat people coming from the coast of Senegal to look for work in the Gambia at the service of the British Empire. The wollof Muslims favoured the Hausas and the Yoruba who settled comfortably in the Muslim community and intermarried.
Names through intermarried: Sallaha, Jallow, Fofana, Jarra, etc.
In Georetown (Now Jangjanbure in the Central River Region of the Gambia, there was a Aku Marabout settlement and the families of Gillen, King, Lamine, Davis, Cole and the Savage made Georgetown their home. Georgetown was a capital town and thriving in Business. It was a trading post favoured by many Aku Marabouts trading in Peanuts and Merchandised goods.
The Aku Marabouts were skilled people such as tailors, making the popular “Gaddardin”, fancy clothes and the popular LADIES PRINT, the woven woollen shoes called the “MOUKE” shoe and aroma ginger and other exotic spices and medicine.
Its Yoruba name is Egungun which was corrupted by missionary writers to egugu or ago-agoo.
Ojeh or Oje, the name by which it is widely known today, is the term for a society group or lodge. In the 20th century it spread among groups of young migrant workers outside of the peninsula and Ojeh groups are now to be found widely distributed throughout Sierra Leone, for example among the Temne. Ojeh ‘devils’ or masked dancers perform in a brightly variegated costume of coloured cloth that covers the head and reaches down to the calves. The face of the masker is concealed behind a grill of netting. Mbye Dibba of Primet Street in Banjul is a Bata drummer custodian of Ojeh culture.
OGEH: Meaning a Spiritual masked Dancer ( A Pakine)
OWOKO: Gambians called Oroko (Popular with Basiru Deen)
ALARUBE : (Fancy Velvet dancer)
MAKALO MAKALO (Kaloo Kaloo)
BAYGHEE: (A simple Pakine)
OKOSSA ( A you the beef/ Flow race)
HUNTING
Hunting Masquerade was organized by Christians which the devil dancer had only two horns dancing in the bush and responsible for killing the animals.The Horns are disguise for other Animals to think that the Man hunter is one of them since they only see the horns.
ANIMATORS
Grandmasters: Shriffo Adams, Basiru Deen, and Daniel Davis, Abu Betts, Mbye Jagne (Uncle Boy), Charles Nicols, Pa During,
Mr. Smart, Nifi Camara, Saidou Camara,Colley Faye sr.
, Abou Jobe Mbullah, Musa Cole, Banki, Aki Allen,Olu Roberts, Charles Dixon, Musa Cole,Prince Corrah, Kwaku Harris,and Agba Basiru Sarr Drum Set: Baas, Ababa, Rolling, lead, Tangba, Beat counters,
Knowledge rivalry & Evil prevention
Many of the older guys later became Islamic scholars and Imams and step out of the ceremonies but their place in the society was well preserves in its purity. These society elders could stop the rain and can cast spell to others who disobeyed their rites and spirits They would beat the ground with prayers and an Agugu will come out of the ground. This Abanshola was made popular in the 50s by late Basiru Deen (popularly known as AWOKO the fancy dance and fierce attacker of intruders in the society gathering ring. He was (a police Bike rider together with Sgt.Sawallo Faal, Badou Ndow, Basiru Faye). They were the Royal bikers of the British Governors in Banjul. In the 1920s, they stated to stage cultural masquerade shows for ceremonials and Knowledge rivalry.
The AGUGU: The family Langley brought Pakine society to the Gambia.
BONDO DEVIL; A fertility Masked organized by women for women alone.
GAYREFE: A fancy Angel Face painted in white and body suit in silk costumes.
HUNTING: Is with two horns only (A Christian ceremony).
EGEREE: Is with Many horns due to modernization.
Legends & Icons
Abou Jallow, John Carew, Ousainou Carew, Abou Denton, Kassa Gillen, Nurainu Gillen, Aziz Coker, Gaira Lamin, Nuru Adams, Muntaga Gillen, Saffinu Savage, Amara Savage, Ebou Gillen (Dobson), Nuru Gillen (Gambia United), Uncle Makie Gillen, Asimi Cole, late Sana Cole, Amara Savage, Zainou Savage, Abdou Gillen, etc
Most Aku marabout made England their home after retirement. They would migrate to UK at an older age. The few that made the Gambia their home are the Oudeen Deen, Abou Jallow, Basiru Sarr and many of the young generation have finally decided that home is where the heart is.
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