“Incarnations of the spirits:” carnivalesque elements of Igbo children's ekpo masking performance

O Nwosu, BE Orji, SE Oko - Folk Life, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This study explores performative features of a children's masking performance carried out
among the Igbo of Southeastern Nigeria. Informed by the need to interrogate the cultural …

Carnival and Afikpo Njenje-Masquerade: examining an indigenous tradition in a postmodernist parade performance

BE Orji - South African Theatre Journal, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Carnivals as seen in Nigeria's performance space have become tourism products that draw
from traditional indigenous practices and the ever unfolding forms of modernity in various …