students from 12 public schools in the Nigerian capital of Abuja thronged the China Cultural Center, the venue of the 2023 annual China-Nigeria Cultural Fiesta, to compete among themselves for two main categories, namely, Chinese dance and Nigerian dance. ...
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in particular, was widely and diversely interpreted in numerous works of art, music and literature. Clemens Brentano laid the foundation for the legend of Lorelei with his balladZu Bacharach am Rheine…, written in 1801. Here, for the first time, a...
Kanois the state capital of Kano State in North West, Nigeria. It is situated in the Sahelian geographic region, south of the Sahara. Kano is the commercial nerve centre of Northern Nigeria and is the second largest city in Nigeria, after Lagos. The Kano metropolis initially covered 137 squ...
Elaborate costumes adorn the Egungun masqueraders (dancers) and through drumming and dance, these dancers become possessed with the spirits of the ancestors. The Egungun then spiritually cleanse the community and through exaggerated acting/miming demonstrate both ethical and amoral behavior that occurred ...
oder stehen in Verbindung mit Fountainhead® Tanz Théâtre. Fountainhead® Tanz Théâtre The Equation / Die Gleichung Choreography: Fountainhead® Tanz Théâtre Dancers (from left): Uli Kopetzky, Nejla Yatkin, Katja Henke, Angela Kramer ...
Traditional performing arts like music, dance, drama, poetic chants, songs, masquerade organised in various communities in Nigeria originate from their culture which is handed over from one generation to another. In Igboland, these indigenous ritual performances serve as the means through which their...
The festival started with the kylin dance, as well as the Shatoujiao fish lantern dance — the city’s first national-level intangible cultural heritage. An expat tries kylin dance. While watching the fish lantern dance, Cha...
Audre Lorde on a flight to Nigeria. In prose full of both joy and heartbreak, Edim recounts how these writers and so many others helped her to value herself: to find her own voice when her mother lost hers, to trust her feelings when her father remarried, to create bonds with other ...
A Wikipedia entry about Mocko Jumbies is instructive. “While the god Moko is from the Kongo (or Congo) and Nigeria, from the Maasai people, Trinidad and Tobago has added their own touch to him. Moko, in the traditional sense, is a god. He watches over his village, and due to his ...