Biama: Cote D’Ivoire’s youth culture hits fast-forward

Côte d’Ivoire’s newest cultural export may arrive at double speed. Biama, the frenetic offshoot of coupé-décalé growing out of Yopougon’s streets, has turned dance battles into laboratories of acrobatics, comedy, bravado, and viral choreography. TikTok is its accelerant, but the movement belongs to a longer Ivorian tradition in which music invents bodies as quickly as […] The post Biama: Cote D’Ivoire’s youth culture hits fast-forward appeared first on New African Magazine.