Cawyaŋ Zarma Sanni

• reviews
  • Proverbs
  • Songhay-Kaado
  • Sorcery's shadow
  • Speak Zarma
  • Story teller
• Dance
  • Dance 1
  • Dance 2
  • Dance 3
  • Dance 4
• Music
  • Traditional
    • Marcanda
    • Lutte traditionelle
    • Chaibou Aerou
    • Festival 1980s
    • Griotte
  • Hip hop
    • Berey koy
    • Cool maïga
    • Ismo one
    • Kaidan Kaskia
    • Wass wong
  • Popular
    • Boureima Disko
    • Djoumassi
    • Idi Sarki
    • Mali Yaro
    • Moussa Poussi
• Traditions
  • Slide shows
    • building a hut
    • casting a pan
    • growing millet
    • harvesting millet
    • mining salt
    • parade
    • wrestling
  • Hippo hunt
  • Marcanda
  • Rain dance
  • Riddles
  • waffa braiding

Traditonal dance 1: Songhay Dance from Niger

YouTube Zarma music & dance clips

This Songhay-Zarma dance comes from Nigerien TV Téle Sahel and is published by Mvuabuluu in 2009. The title track is "Mariètou" and the singer is Dalweyzé.

Instruments are a tsiriki  a traditional flute, a gooje a traditional fiddle (in Songhay njarka), a dondoŋ a talking drum and a kotso (kurukutu) a traditional snare drum.