“The African Finger Snap” As Explained and Demonstrated By Lupita Nyong’o [VIDEO]

When she’s not out and about slaying the fashions and winning Oscars, Lupita Nyong’o is at Vanity Fair teaching the masses about a gesture commonly referred to as the “African Finger Snap.”

Lupita Nyong'o Teaches How to Do an African Finger Snap

As a Haitian-American woman, I can recall seeing this snap used by my grandmother, on occasion, but Lord knows I could never replicate it, and I certainly didn’t know what it was called. Watching Lupita Nyong’o teach us how to do an African Finger snap made me feel both nostalgic and proud. So many of our traditions as children of the Diaspora can be so easily and readily linked back to the motherland.

Lupita Nyong'o Teaches How to Do an African Finger Snap

Watch Lupita Nyong’o teach us how to do an African finger snap HERE:

Can you do it?!

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One Comment

  1. Christiane says:

    So funny! this is definitely used in my black community in Curacao.

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