Show pictures, links of masqurades you know in Naija. Don't  forget to mention their names and origin.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7rgLFM7Ns8&feature=related

Ikeji Arondizuogu

Odinga masqurade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xMCLSbIoSA

Ogbamgbada(dancing masqurade) from arondizuogu


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhKGR7g2nZU&feature=related

Emeka check this one out.

http://www./video/x1rro8_igbo-people-masquerade-pictures-195_events

Emeka check this one out.

Nice one. Did you see that man that floats in the air in the Ikeji video?. No be gist ooo, na live suspension in the air.

Beautiful Owi masqurade from ikole




Lol, looks like poodle.

eyo masquerade in lagos island
,sorry dunno how to re size or enlarge photos

egungun masquerade from oyo/osun state with thir devotees

I saw most of these masquerades in the museum.



in fact even some ones I hadnt seen before.

eyo masquerade from lagos!!

tpia:

I saw most of these masquerades in the museum

which museum?

tiv masquarade from Tiv land

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tpia:



New York Met.

I visited the place some years ago and intend to go back soon, hopefully.

Arh nice

I would have to check it out too

I am quite keen

Thanks

Egwu Adamma (Adamma dance, derived from the famous 'Agbogho mmuo' (maiden spirit) masquerades which symbolise female beauty and maidens. The story of Adamma was created during the early eighties, but Agbogho mmuo has been with the Igbo for a long time, specifically Anambra and Enugu Igbo)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbS_dIx_3Hc

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ezeagu:

Egwu Adamma (Adamma dance, derived from the famous 'Agbogho mmuo' (maiden spirit) masquerades which symbolise female beauty and maidens. The story of Adamma was created during the early eighties, but Agbogho mmuo has been with the Igbo for a long time, specifically Anambra and Enugu Igbo)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbS_dIx_3Hc

nice!

I remember those days in Enugu

Ekpe masqurade: Cross river/Abia states

Ijele: The biggest masqurade in igboland. Makes a rare appearance(an average of once per decade)

Bata masqurade: Oyo state

Ondo state:

Ijaw masqurade

They look like KKK members

Imo: Mgbadike

Abeokuta: stilt masqurade

Igbo masqurade: Akwuebu(beehive)

Anambra/delta: Mgbadike

nigerian samurai

nigerian samurai

lol; its very colourful. That is the variant form of mgba -dike.

@alloy
that other masquerade cant be called bata masquerade, the drum is called bata so the masquerade ll actually have anuiva name

Aloy.Emeka:

Ijaw masqurade

They look like KKK members

Biko, of all the masquerades in Ijaw land, why you go bring this nonsense na? You could have brought the Pirirangala masquerade, which is 40 feet tall and dances on stilts, the Odum masquerade which is the sea snake and is 40 feet long and emerges from the river, or the flamboyant Pioru masquerade or the Egwein masquerade which floats on air and dances on water.

If I had pictures I would post them. . . . . I doubt any masquerade can phock with the Odum.


ODUM

Celebrated by the Ijaws of Okrika in the Okrika Local Government area of Rivers state. It is celebrated once in 10years or at major occassions. The festival which displays a Boa constrictor masquerade on water, is very colorful, flamboyant and quite expensive to celebrate.The high point of the festival is the offer of gifts such as live goats or other animals which the odum swallows without blinking.

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