Pata Pata by Angélique Kidjo (official video) | UNICEF

UNICEF put out a call to the global public, asking people to submit videos of themselves dancing to the song in their homes and gardens, tagging @UNICEFAfrica, with the hashtag #NoPataPata. All submissions were created while observing various COVID-19 lockdown, containment and curfew rules. The response was overwhelming. Submissions – from young and the young at heart – were received from Australia, Austria, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Eswatini, Malawi, UK, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Nigeria, Slovenia, Slovakia, USA, India, UAE, Japan, Senegal, and of course, Makeba’s homeland of South Africa, and Kidjo’s homeland, Benin. A handful of the clips have been selected and these lucky dancers appear in the music video alongside Kidjo, who recorded the song at her home in Paris.

AUDIO COPYRIGHT RESTRICTION: No rights granted for song "Pata Pata," version by Angélique Kidjo. (c) Concord Music Inc.


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[abhishekpatel]

Everyone seems happy.It seems as if the whole world is a family. Thank you UNICEF for making this song.

[jacobzaranyika]

Even this and the Japan support was All from you. Nowhere else to go

[a.m.rivers]

My favourite song from childhood, Pata Pata.🙏🏾🕊💪🏾❤️🌻😘🎶💃🏾🎶🎶🎶🕺🏽🥰❤️🎶

[sharonitakostini]

I absolutely love this song, such a cheerful song

[silversweet]

This made me smile this morning. Thank you UNICEF and Angelique.

[joanosborne]

Trinidad loves it . Will be great on the steel pan 😊

[karenlefevre]

This is like the U.N. had a baby with "Sesame Street." From me, that is the ultimate compliment. MERCI, ANGELIQUE ET UNICEF!

[manasriesano]

I can't see Ivory Coast, or Libanon ... we always saw Kenya SA USA Italy...
But it was great !!!!

[donnamcleod]

Love it!! We are in this together from every corner of our world.

[KNagel]

I like that the different african countries are shown more often, in their diversity, while there is no clip from other countries which would dominate the western news :P

[madansharma]

This is a video learn to fight Covid-19.

[marzioinazio]

Brasil? Mexico? Argentina? Uruguay? Ufff... nada de Latinoamérica...

[LuaiBOOS]

Still nothing changed with me yet nothing new with me

[HugMeNaturE]

Mera India jada tar song me hota hai😊😊

[jacobzaranyika]

It's obvious nobody is seeing my comments. There is a reason I kept everything to myself. I understood what it meant. Why won't you just talk to me. Tell me what you want done so we can move on. I am reasonable and have been since day one. But for some reason you won't explain what you want. WHAT DO YOU WANT? For me to erase my memory and never talk again? What do you want?

You are controlling everything on my YouTube and nobody is seeing anything - there is nowhere left to go at this point. What do you want from me?