Where Did Twerking Originate?

Twerking is a booty shaking phenomenon. Celebrity and internet videos feature the dance. Then there is the infamous Miley Cyrus twerking at the 2013 VMAs.

Twerking is a "dance to popular music in a provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance."

Where did this particular style originate?  Columnists claim twerking started in a 1990s music video.

Twerking could actually be from Africa. The possibility a tribal person started the dance movements way before Westerners were aware of twerking is more probable.

Sure enough there are articles about similar dances beginning in Africa. Twerkings origins could have little to do with our popular culture. They could be African.


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