When Azonto sprouted from a small community in Ghana and spread to the rest of the world, I can bet with my tiny balls that our Nigerian brothers were secretly jealous about little achievement.
Before we could say jack, they have come up with their unique dance called Shaku Shaku. This dance is so popular that, all over social media and every available space, you’ll see both the young and old slug it out to see who ‘kills’ it.
But hold it, we just came across a viral discourse on social media alluding the dance to slavery. According to what we gathered from one social media user, the dance move which involves the hands in a locking motion and the feet in a shaking movement depict the primary state of chained slaves, begging for freedom.
According to him, Shaku Shaku is a slavery one and advised that Nigerians stops doing it as it might have a spiritual connection that can possible jeopardise their destiny.
In the circulating message on several social media platforms, it is said that the term ‘shaku shaku’ originates from the world shackles which is linked to being chained and hindered from freedom.
Some disturbing images were attached, showing statues of slaves in the shaku shaku position, insinuating that the dance might have connection to slavery as claimed by the writer.
What’s your take on this?
Most people don't know that the Shaku Shaku dance is a dance done by criminals when they are on handcuffs aka Shackles, hence the name 'Shackles Shackles'. The below picture depicts when a police officer is putting a handcuff on a criminal #Thread pic.twitter.com/3uqZW879y2
— WotzUp.ng (@wotzupNG) July 30, 2018
Source: ghgossip.com
