(from table of contents) Preface -- (Setting the urban stage). Introduction, Masquerade as an Artistic Pulse of the City -- "Face No Fear Face": Unmasking Youths -- (Space). "If they Burn it Down, We ...

The Ekpe/Mgbe society is the most renowned cultural institution of the Cross River region (southeastern Nigeria and west Cameroon). The society was the governing body for many communities of the ...

Finishing a monograph, Masquerade and Money in Urban Nigeria: The Case of Calabar, which examines the broad masquerade culture by exploring the six prominent masquerade societies currently thriving in ...

From initiation rites to harvest festivals, many traditional African rituals require participants to don masks and elaborate costumes that transform their wearers into spirits, beasts, or ancestral ...

The ongoing annual Calabar Festival was given an added flavour Thursday with the staging of a dance drama by the Alexandria Folk dance Troupe of Egypt. The dance, the first of its kind ever to be ...

A pair of Kimi masks (headpiece carved by David Sanou in the studio of André Sanou) performing greetings with the lead griot Tchiedo playing his drum behind them, Bindougosso district, Bobo-Dioulasso, ...