Somalia is a country known for its traditional dances and music in Middle East Africa. In Somali culture and tradition Niiko Somali is traditional dance where every body is having fun and dance with some special foot and belly steps of your body in between a lot of drum beating. Occasionally there is no alcohols use and dirty dancing, African dance on tune of traditional Niiko Somali dance on community party or wedding occasion in their society.

Somalia is also home for many traditional and cultural dances. Few dances are performed by women and men both. And few are performed by only men and few are performed by women only. Niiko is originally traditional dance performed by African women in group. They performed niiko dance on occasion of any community function or weddings party of their close relative. Niiko Somali dance involves of intricate and tiny movements of buttocks and hip which African do in very great style. You need to perfectly fit for performing the dance. You should not have any problems with your hips and buttocks for performing this dance. Its special movement led to its popularity. Boondheere is another African dance performed by African women on similar steps.

Special movements of buttocks and hips lead to its popularity among African youths. It spread in other parts of the world also. For its special movements of body dance become so famous in other parts of world. Shakira's famous dance on “Hips don't lie” is inspired by traditional African dance. The performance of Shakira, the famous pop singers and dancer in various parts of world through its live concerts, made this dance more popular and famous. You will find the performance of traditional dance of niiko in any major international and cultural event in Africa. During the world cup finals of 2010, traditional dancers from Africa performed the traditional niiko dance in front of millions of spectators on screen. So if you are willing to dance on tune of drums with some difficult steps of niiko dance, you have to keep your buttocks and hip fit for the exercise.

You will get lots of posting on YouTube featuring performance of African men and women with performing special niiko dance. Now a days with introduction of modern world of Africa, people from that part of planet are adapting to new culture, but traditional dances of Africa has not lost their values and place in their traditional history.