Meet Nigerian Woman, Who Twerks For a Living (Photos & Video)
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In a vid
eo interview with BBC pidgin, Janemena a professional Nigerian twerker talked about her twerking skills, why she chooses it as a career, her challenges, particularly in a society where her profession is seen to portray a lot of sexuality.
Watch this video and see some of her skills and the full interview on why she chooses it as a career, and it also pays her financially.
The graduate of Economics, who is also a professional photo journalist and businesswoman, said her goal is to see that twerking is seen by what it is an not a sexual activity. She said professional twerkers could make alot of money through twerking, and that people should stop seeing women who twerks as sexual tools, even though what is used majorly for twerking, according to her is a "woman's tool of destruction"
According to her, twerking is actually not a new way of dancing, but had been in existence for a long time. She said Fela's women twerked, but twerking had be modernized to suite the current times.
She said alot of people did not believe she could have a relationship that can work because of the nature of profession, that even when she got engaged that thought it was all hoax, and now she is married.
She said she twerked during her traditional marriage and that her dad is one of her kin followers on her instagram page, and so what she is doing is not hidden to her family.
Twerking is a kind of dance, particularly done by women using their waist and buttocks. Twerking is defined has a type of dance that came out of the bounce music scene of New Orleans in the late 1980s. Individually-performed, chiefly but not exclusively by women, dancers move by throwing or thrusting their hips back or shaking their buttocks, often in a low squatting stance.
She advised people who wants to twerk to do it professionally and with pride.
See more photos and video below;
See video below;
“Dis twerking na beta business for social media” - JanemenaEXCLUSIVE! [Warning: Dis video get some parts wey for over 18 🔞] Janemena na influencer for Nigeria 🇳🇬 wey plenty pipo know for social media ontop her twerking skills. She follow share wit us how she start, her marriage, plus she even drop advise for upcoming ‘twerkers’.
Posted by BBC News Pidgin on Friday, August 14, 2020
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