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jim in paris

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toupies on Togo
« on: November 05, 2023, 02:07:31 AM »

hi all
our friend Gianni is in Togo
he sent me 2 interesting videos
in the 1st one he explains that his quest for toupies all around the world is only a pretext to meet people and learn about their cultutre and traditions

in the 2nd vid it shows 3 different toupies built and used by kids

have fun watching

jim






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Re: toupies on Togo
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2023, 03:28:40 AM »

The conference Is in Togo.
The video with the Kids Is in Benin.
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Re: toupies on Togo
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2023, 10:25:17 AM »

Gianni sent me a second video of his talk in Togo, that he named "integration and spinning tops". He talks how the people there are the future of the world (Africa has the most young people) and how they need to integrate (this might be migrants) with Europeans (including intermarriage).

The second video (15km from Djakotomé in Benin, close to the border of Togo) shows, in addition to the top made with bottle caps, the two versions of the original Rascal (shell and pen cap), and I will re-post it on that thread, together with videos that Gianni took spinning them. He also send me a video with a 4th top, made with some fruit. Here is photo of the shell rascal, the fruit palm top and the bottle caps plam top:



The ethnicity is Adja and the name for a spinning top in the Adja language is Egoo.
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