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Georgia Geechee Kunda Griot Jamal Toure, Part 2
Georgia Geechee Kunda Griot Jamal Toure, Part 2
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Georgia Geechee Kunda griot, Jamal Toure, Part 1
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Artistic director of Georgia Geechee Kunda and Djeli (living historian or Griot), Jamal Toure takes the audience through the history of Africans in America and the Geechee Gullah culture.
Georgia Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters, Part 2
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Georgia Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters in Riceboro, Georgia March 2011
Georgia Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters, Part 1
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Griffin Lotson introduces the Georgia Geechee Gullah Ring shouters' performance in Riceboro, Georgia on March 11, 2011.
I did a history report in the 10th grade about my grandmother and they used to play " little Sally walker "
Beautiful.
The pounding stick (hambone) makes the same sound as the African drum. The drum was outlawed to keep enslaved people from communicating with each other and possibly revolting. The drum is called the conga in the Latin Carribbean. Another substitute conga is the tambourine. The cadence of church clapping often sounds like the way a conga would be beaten.
Thanks for your very informative response. It's always good to learn and share about our history.
I remember lil Sally walker 😊
The rhythm is very similar to our 🇨🇩 Congolese drum pattern. Much love from across the sea
Thank you Natty Dread. One Love.
Amen!!!Praise the Lord! Our beautiful heritage from the Mother Land still surviving!!!
My mama taught me the Sally song! 💜💜💜
I'm from RiceBoro... Roberts Hill and Howard Hill. Sandy Run to Briar Bay
To my Gullah/Geechees… The name Gullah is in the Strong’s Concordance Bible dictionary as a Hebrew name. Look in the Hebrew Language section on page 1353 and you can see for yourselves. Yah’ll (we) are Hebrews. Our names were not mis-pronounced as Angola or Golas although some of our ancestors were from there. The Spanish and English called us Gullah or GuYah (In spanish the LL makes a Y sound) because they knew who we were. Geechees are the Yamasee or Yahmassee (Yah) (Yahweh) who were also Hebrews and were called (Maroons, Guale, Yamacraw, Creek Aborigines) by the Spanish. Cum-by-Yah, Ah-ha-Yah, We-Ben-Yah (We Son of Yah), Hallelu-Yah.
My mom taught us the song Sally. "Put your hands on yo hips, let yo backbone slip, shake it to East, shake it to the West, shake it to the one that you love the best." She learned it as a kid.
Well look at that, I learned the Sally Saucer song in the 70's all the way up here in Alberta, Canada when I was a kid. Some words a bit different like wipe your sleepy eyes, not weepy, and look to the east, not shake. But amazing!
Same here but in California. Most of us here though , bc of The Great Migration have roots in deep south. My grandparents and mom and her siblings speech Geechee but are from Arakansas and Mississipi.
Christian Thompson that’s cool. Is that still called geechee tho because I know the geechee/Gullah accent are pretty similar to deep country accents in the south and Deep South but I never heard those accents being called geechee or Gullah because it wasn’t from the Gullah SC islands or geechee lands in Georgia
God bless my ancestors for paving the way for me. Big dsnipes
Thanks for sharing!
I live in LaGrange Ga and I remember singing "lil sally walker" as a lil girl WoW!
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Wow! I was born and raised in Harlem, NY- and we used to sing some of these songs as kids. Unaware of the history behind them! THIS is AWESOME. Thank You!
Sounds like our music from Guinea, West Africa. You are all my African brothers and sisters.
Thank you, Cherif.
Like many of the slaves brought to the Gullah Geechee belt, this dance is distinctively from Futa Tooro- Maritanian Fulbe, who still do the same dance today. It has not changed.
Whats it called?
Wonderful. You look and sound like my Bahamian ancestors.
beautiful!!!!!! my slave ancestors came from GA an SC
So much like Jamaican Creole and my grandmother's old-folk language in Alabama. Old people used to say teen-inchy (long i) when I was growing up in Alabama. Jamaicans still say "frock" for dress and "'oman" for "woman," "tek" for "take." Jamaicans still say "unnu" for "y'all." I see the Geechee/Gullah say "yunnu." Y'all and unnu? Anyway, check Igbo for the word for "y'all." I believe it's still "unu."
I'm greatly appreciative of the fact that this was shared :) Even though I'm not of the culture, it awakens something inside me and gets me feeling like my ancestors recognize it and have something similar to it :) Thank you so much :)
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed the video and I appreciate your comments.
Great Video thank you for sharing Peace and Love!
Great video love it!,Thank you for sharing Peace and Love!
Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
How beautiful. I hope to see more of this wonderful culture on our next trip to the Sea Islands.
If we forget our history, we are destined to repeat it. We must never forget
See iv always wanted to know about geechee folks. My grandmother told me that I was blackfoot Indian n geechee and that her side of the family came from Georgia n she happened to move to Florida. I thought " geechee" never existed until I did research n now I know what I am and I want to know how this become part of my family tree. I'll love to know more about the geechee history :-)
The music definitely has an African flavor to it. Reminds me a lot of Afro-Caribbean music.
It sounds like a reggae type beat. Like you could change the words and it would fit
Well African Americans are African descent so makes sense!
@@mrhimselfalone7657 Its the same beat base in Dancehall
@@bootbredda2724 that's interesting
@@mrhimselfalone7657 In New Orleans they beat on drums on Sundays in Congo Square and call it the Bamboula and its the base for the Secondline rhythm
Awesome
That was great. I understood all your old timey also even though I'm from California.
no need want back to the roots because you are the roots !!
Call and response is so beautiful! They are great. Thanks for this video! Uprated.
Thank you for uploading this! I'm doing research on African American English and I recently found out about Gullah culture and language. So very interesting. Thanks! Greetings from Mexico!
So amazing. I'm from Tobago and we still use the same kind of yard broom she's talking about. We call it a fex broom. The connections to the way these shouters move and speak remind me of home.
We need more of this, sooooo much to be proud of....
My history love it!!