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Shaku shaku

🇳🇬 Nigeria Slang
Added Apr 06, 2026 · 1 definition
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Dance style (Popular dance)

"Everybody dey do shaku shaku (Everyone is doing shaku shaku)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Apr 06, 2026

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🇳🇬 Nigeria
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April 2026

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Shaku shaku 🇧🇼 Botswana

Shaku shaku (Nigerian dance)

"Naija shaku shaku (Nigerian dance)"
Shaku shaku 🇬🇭 Ghana

Popular dance move (Dance style)

"Everybody dey do shaku shaku now (Everyone is doing shaku shaku now)"

🇳🇬 About Nigeria Slang

Nigeria has one of Africa's richest street-language traditions, blending Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, and Pidgin English into a constantly evolving slang vocabulary used by over 220 million people.

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🌍 "Shaku shaku" Across Africa

This word is also used in 2 other countries, sometimes with a different meaning.

Shaku shaku 🇧🇼 Botswana

Shaku shaku (Nigerian dance)
Shaku shaku 🇬🇭 Ghana

Popular dance move (Dance style)

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