Dance Queen Kaffy Wanted To Be An Aeronautic Engineer

Dance queen Kafayat Shafau,A.k.a Kaffy says becoming a dancer was not part of her plans.

Addressing the issue in her new web series: ‘Dear Young Nigerians’,
the popular 38-year-old dancer and choreographer, said her dream was to become an aeronautic engineer.

“I wanted to be an aeronautic engineer; I never wanted to be a dancer,” she said, adding: “Let’s be real to ourselves, a lot of us went to school to study something but are not practising what we studied but the knowledge of that has helped.”

While touching on the perception that not much knowledge and studying is needed to make a name in a profession like dancing, Kaffy stated: “Somebody said it’s dancing, you don’t require that level of technical knowledge. You’re not a telco company.

“The skills I learned in mechanic engineering; Industrial maintenance engineering; all the physics, mathematics and economics; all the statistics; all of what I learned from primary school, secondary school and university are being applied in my profession as a dancer.”


Kaffy, who led her dance group to break the Guinness Book of Record for Longest Dance Party in 2006, said the profession was an unthinkable venture when she started out years back.

New Telegraph

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