Tope Alabi-Oore Tio Common 3 (Nigeria)

Posted by chieffemi
July 16, 2007

Video Summary:
"TOPE ALABI-OORE TIO COMMON 3"

According to this website http://www.topealabi.com/biography.html "Oore Ti O" means "Uncommon Favor". Tope's given name is "Temitope" which means "enough to give thanks" in Yoruba.

Tope Alabi sings two songs in this video. The second one starts at 2:40. I gather from several viewer comments that these are gospel song. Unfortunately, the only words that I can understand in the first song is "Jesus Christ" and I can't understand any words in the second song. My familiarity with that cultures' clothing is the only way I knew that these are Yoruba (Nigeria) songs. While I like these songs (particularly the first one) I admit that I'm most interested in seeing the traditional attire that the women and men wear, I'm particularly interested in the different ways that the women wrap their head scarfs. I wrote a comment in the video's viewer comment thread asking for more information about these songs. I also asked about the significance (if any) of the different ways that the headwraps are styled. If anyone responds to my comment, I'll add those response/s here.