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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MASQUERADES are one of the noble and cherished aspects of Igbo tradition and culture. Every community in Igbo land has masquerades. In many communities, males are initiated into the masquerade group ...

Masquerades are cultural or religious events that often feature masked dancers embodying various spirits. Omabe masquerades are believed to be representatives of the ancestors of Nsukka. The region ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some traders of Igbo extraction and Yoruba youths in Akure, the Ondo State capital, have engaged in a free for all following the alleged stabbing of a masquerade escort by an Igbo trader The incident ...