www.dancesrootsonline.com aims to acquaint you with "The concept of a single "Yoruba" kingdom of 54 /60 million descendants world-wide. The people and its baptism with the Hausa term for the inhabitants of Oyo was largely the work of liberated captives and their children returning from Sierra Leone, particularly as Protestant missionaries. The terms by which the descendants of Yoruba-speakers are known today in the New World - "Nago" in Brazil, "Nago" in Haiti and Jamaica, "Lucumi" in Cuba, "Aku" in Sierra Leone and Gambia, "Kru" in Liberia, "Anago" in Benin Republic and "Yoruba or Oruba" in Trinidad - emerged as meaningful categories in the context of enslavement and exile. The "Yorubas" can in this sense be seen as a product of displacement and dispersion!!!

<<==== Dancesrootsonline advocates a WORLD DAY marking the events of "FORCED SLAVERY   ABOLITION OF THE CRUEL ACT   THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA 1884!!!" Cha Cha Cha was created in Cuba in 1954 by a Cuban violinist called Enrique Jorrin. According to Jorrin, the sound made by the shoes of the dancers on the floor sounded like "cha-cha-cha", while they tried to follow the new rhythm that, at the beginning, was simply called "mambo-rumba". In the slow Mambo tempo, there was a distinct sound in the music that people began dancing to, calling the step the "Triple" Mambo. In early days, this dance and its music were both known as "triple mambo" or "mambo with guiro rhythm". The cha-cha part of the rhythm is a series of small gliding steps that barely touch the floor. A huge variety of fancy footwork can be added to the dance, imitating the execution of the real Cuban rumba .The cha-cha includes a lot of hip movements. The pelvis is held in one position and left free for this motion. Cha Cha is considered to be an offshoot of the Mambo!!! Sweto ===>>