Fancy Dress Festival Archives - African Research Consult https://african-research.com/tag/fancy-dress-festival/ Your #1 Educational center Thu, 31 Dec 2020 15:49:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://i0.wp.com/african-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-AREC.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Fancy Dress Festival Archives - African Research Consult https://african-research.com/tag/fancy-dress-festival/ 32 32 194781668 The Winneba Fancy Dress Festival: A Colonial Tradition That Has Become an Indigenous Culture https://african-research.com/research/music/the-winneba-fancy-dress-festival-a-colonial-tradition-that-has-become-an-indigenous-culture/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-winneba-fancy-dress-festival-a-colonial-tradition-that-has-become-an-indigenous-culture https://african-research.com/research/music/the-winneba-fancy-dress-festival-a-colonial-tradition-that-has-become-an-indigenous-culture/#respond Thu, 31 Dec 2020 15:49:25 +0000 http://african-research.com/?p=1704 The Halloween-like fancy dress New Year Festival that began over a century ago in Ghana as a mocking satire of colonial life is still thriving today, with hundreds of people dressing up and wearing bizarre expressive masks!  According to African-research.com Ghanaians in Winneba began forming masquerade groups in the 1920’s to Poke Fun at the Life and [...]

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