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Igunnuko Festival is the celebration of the tallest masquerade in the world. [1] The masquerade emanates from the Nupe , Niger Kogi , Kwara state and Abuja in Nigeria. In the Yoruba tradition, when the Igunnuko masquerade emerged at festivals or ritual ceremonies, they are believed to be deities.
The Ankos Festival also known as Takoradi street carnival or Masquerade Festival is an annual event celebrated by the people of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana. Its main attraction is dozens of groups of people or teams dressing in wild outfits who display their skills and arts via dance .
In 1834, the Caribbean festival took root in Trinidad and Tobago, when French settlers brought the Fat Tuesday masquerade tradition to the island. It soon became a vibrant celebration, blending Creole Canboulay festivities with the European masquerade, eventually evolving into the modern Caribbean Carnival. At its start, formerly enslaved ...
The achikwu ocha (white) masquerade acts as village surveillance. The "entertainment" activities include "singing, joking, and dancing" (Oyeneke 22). Achikwu ojii (black) is the other side of the achikwu ocha masquerade. This is performed not only to protect the village, but also when there is going to be a punishment or execution of a criminal [4]
[3] [11] The thirteenth edition of the festival was held from February 27 to March 5, 2016, and featured masks from over 50 communities from six West African countries: Burkina Faso, Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, and Togo. [2] [12] ASAMA estimated 100,000 people attended the event, [2] including more than 2,000 international tourists. [12]
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Junkanoo is a festival that was originated during the period of African chattel slavery in British American colonies.It is practiced most notably in The Bahamas, Jamaica and Belize, and historically in North Carolina and Miami, where there are significant settlements of West Indian people during the post-emancipation era.
Twilight Masquerade 2015, The Crystal Ball 2017 - MomoCon hosted (alongside Dragon Con for The Crystal Ball) a full formal masquerade event in 2015 and 2017 held in the Oceans Ballroom at the Georgia Aquarium. Winterfest was held from 18–19 December 2021, as a smaller-scale replacement for the main convention due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [9]