A Nigerian lady has shared a hilarious video on the TikTok app showing the kind of masquerade she saw at her village In a video, the lady captured the masquerade on the road and its resemblance to ...

For more than 20 years photographer Phyllis Galembo has traveled Africa and Haiti documenting the art of the masquerade. What is it about masks? “It’s the creativity,” says Galembo.

Forbidden from worshipping their deities or participating in the 18th-century pre-Lenten masquerade balls of their French and British masters, slaves merged African traditions and folklore with ...

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