ABSTRACT: Nigeria has a lot of natural and man-made tourism potentials, which includes but are not limited to masquerade festivals, traditional and contemporary drama, cultural edifices and so on. These tourism potentials, especially masquerade festivals as treated in...
Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) succinctly creates a picture of a catastrophic and unfortunate encounter between two creations with different socio-cultural beliefs, values and ideals. Postulated as a contact that would have ordinarily been...
Over the years, a number of security approaches have been developed in managing national museums and in limiting the chances of cultural properties loss. Also, a lot of acts from outside our museums by-passes and contravene museums security policies, practices and...
IKeji Festival, which takes place in Arondizuogu in Imo State, is believed to have as many as four versions of it’s origin. The first version talks of how a warrior named Dikeji from Arondizuogu conquered a village and made it compulsory for the defeated ruler...
Ineh is the festival of the Onotu Society also referred to as Igba Ekwensu. The Onotu is a society of war veterans. War itself is about decimating the enemy. According to popular belief,’’the hero is he who went to war, killed the enemy and came home safely.’’ The...
