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The dancer, named after the Ivorian palm nut delicacy, was competing in a series of street dance battles set to biama, a frenetic offshoot of coupé-décalé, a type of percussive dance music popular across west Africa that originated in Côte d’Ivoire around the turn of the century.
Acrobatic, goofy and super-fast: the biama battles redefining Ivorian dance culture Eromo Egbejule 2026
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