{"id":44389,"date":"2014-07-23T04:05:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T08:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/?p=44389"},"modified":"2018-03-22T20:47:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T00:47:09","slug":"african-dances-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2014\/07\/23\/african-dances-z\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenzo&#8217;s FAB &#8220;I&#8217;m Not Afraid of Losing&#8221; + 24 African Dances to Brighten Your Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dEwxyabYHFE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dEwxyabYHFE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Video link HERE<\/a>.) We love Eddy Kenzo&#8217;s joyful \u201cSitya Loss\u201d (<strong>\u201cI&#8217;m not afraid of losing\u201d<\/strong>), featuring a group of boys and a girl performing\u00a0on a dirt road in Uganda. After hunting for the lyrics (which are in Swahili), we found this interpretation from youtuber\u00a0<span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u00a0jerzeykid2006able:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\u201cIn life we do not have to fear losses because we are the bosses of our own life, we have to enjoy the little life we have by shaking our bodies (dancing)<\/strong>, as strong youth we have to enjoy our lives to the fullest because when we look at our past lives, we get to notice quite a number of our friends who we have lost and we are never going to get them back, they left us a long time ago, and went for another eternal life (death), so <strong>let\u2019s live life to its fullest and enjoy every simple moment, let\u2019s dance to the best tunes of music, life is really precious but short.<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Much to dance to!<\/p>\n<p>You can work in some swell new dance moves into your day with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedancehall.sn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Dance Hall<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0wonderful video primer on African traditional and modern dance styles, from Ghanaian Azonto to Ivory Coast&#8217;s Zoropoto: an alphabet&#8217;s worth of joy.\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LInMiYj6ZVE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Video link HERE.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LInMiYj6ZVE?rel=0\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2014\/07\/20\/video-african-dances-from-a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Video link HERE.) We love Eddy Kenzo&#8217;s joyful \u201cSitya Loss\u201d (\u201cI&#8217;m not afraid of losing\u201d), featuring a group of boys and a girl performing\u00a0on a dirt road in Uganda. After hunting for the lyrics (which are in Swahili), we found this interpretation from youtuber\u00a0\u00a0jerzeykid2006able: \u201cIn life we do not have to fear losses because we&hellip;<\/p>\n<a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\" https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2014\/07\/23\/african-dances-z\/ \">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":70444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[104,6549,169,780,800],"tags":[7851,7852,7850,7849],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kenzo&#039;s FAB &quot;I&#039;m Not Afraid of Losing&quot; + 24 African Dances to Brighten Your Day - Improvised Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"(Video link HERE.) 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