The Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, in Cross River State has lamented the inimical activities of Ekpo cultural displays in the Calabar metropolis and other adjoining towns during this Yuletide ...

(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 ...

Christmas was so much fun in Calabar, the city of my youthful years. The town drew cultural festivities like moths to light or as hedonistic men to women of easy virtue. It was a melting pot for ...

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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 ...