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Leadership
Art & Culture

African Dance: Culture,

Identity and Pride.

f one was to tell of the his- queathed through dance. From keen Dances are often handed down
tory and growth of African observation, these dances and songs through the ages, and many African
societies, their story would were once tools of communication, dances have been performed for
Ibe incomplete without them passing messages from one person centuries without alteration depend-
providing even a snippet of its out- to another, one generation to anoth- ing on their messages. Most African
standing culture and traditions be- er and the entire community at large. dances are deeply saturated in ritual,

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