YouTube lifted restrictions from videos showing Swaziland’s reed dance, which feature bare-breasted women.
A spokesperson for the video-sharing platform told the BBC that YouTube allows nudity when “culturally relevant or properly contextualised”.
Users who had uploaded reed dance videos were angered when it was classified as age-restricted content.
YouTube has denied accusations of racism, saying it was keen to be culturally sensitive.
The move was in response to a campaign led by Lazi Dlamini, the head of TV Yabantu, an online video production company, featuring Africa’s “finest culture… as seen, and recorded by the African people”.
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