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.

Nearly two years after Indigenes filed a lawsuit challenging the portrayal of the Eyo Masquerade in the movie, a court in ...

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 ...

The Isale Eko Descendants Union has expressed satisfaction with the court ruling ordering producers of the movie ‘Gangs of Lagos’ to apologise to the union for how Eyo masquerade was portrayed in the ...

From soul-stirring introspection to high-energy celebration, Black Fab, the enigmatic force behind the afro-conscious sound, unveils his latest EP, Big Masquerade. This bold sonic expedition ...