Examines the economic and spatial importance of performance arts in West Africa through a close analysis of the masquerade culture of Calabar, the capital city of Nigeria's Cross River State. To save ...
Some masquerades are entertainment—a parade, for example, or dance that reinforces the cultural identity of ... Phyllis Galembo has traveled Africa and Haiti documenting the art of the masquerade.
Nigeria’s annual Egungun festival is a centuries old Yoruba tradition, and one of the most colourful cultural celebrations in West and Central Africa ... adopt elaborate masquerades and are ...
Local cultural nonprofit Rootead Enrichment Center is hosting their first-ever African Masquerade Fundraiser to fund the programs they offer. Programs at Rootead share a mission to unite and ...