In Igboland, masquerades are held in high esteem and play roles such as being custodians of traditional laws ensuring peace and resolving conflicts in the community. Of all the masquerades in Igboland ...

Publisher: Lap Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany. Reviewer: Isidore Uzoatu. This tour de force of a book by Chike Okoye is absolutely not your run-of-the-mill publication. It is like the enigmatic ...

Nigerian rapper, Owoh Chimaobi Chrismathner, popularly known as Zoro Swagback, on Sunday, stunned Big Brother Naija viewers during the live eviction show when he brought out a popular Anambra State ...

The Iriji Festival, the Igbo New Yam celebration, is one of Southeast Nigeria’s most treasured cultural traditions, ...

Onye Ogwu, a popular entertaining "female" Igbo masquerade, is a crowd pleaser with her joking and jesting antics and storytelling. She usually performs during women's festivals. Her costume and ...

In Igbo land, masquerades are feared and respected. They are regarded as the spirit of the ancestors who resurface to adjudicate on matters that defied the wisdom of the living In the yesteryear, the ...

The World of Music, new series, Vol. 4, No. 2, Performing the New Diasporas: Contemporary African Ritual Music in North America (2015), pp. 99-118 (20 pages) Drawing from four years of active ...