Inspired by the spirit of convergence for which Lagos remains pre-eminent, the Lagos Black Heritage Festival celebrates African creativity within a carnivalesque of traditional and contemporary Dance, Music, Painting and Photo Exposition, Drama, Design and Fashion Display, an International Symposium, Film and Video Fiesta and other artistic and intellectual offerings, both inter-state and international. In a seven-day cultural manifestation during which hundreds of performers will animate the ancient city of Badagry and cosmopolitan Lagos with a passage of the traditional and the modern.

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cool pixs

nice1......

yeaaaa, beautiful pics.

good job!


Wole Soyinka is there and he likes traditional culture.

uncle FASH looks like a genttle man. he looks cool.

mikron: cool pixs

uncle FASH looks like a genttle man. he looks cool.

Nice one, but are those Yoruba traditional dancers (2nd to last) wearing tennis?

to be sincere this is a very fantastic one

ugly looking retards. Whats cool about these pictures

Very intrested despat d true am 4rm north.

LeoMax: ugly looking retards. Whats cool about these pictures

sadist.........o je ba onire yor ki irey tie ley teeeh lowoh

Raphtop: sadist.........o je ba onire yor ki irey tie ley teeeh lowoh

beautiful pictures

LeoMax: ugly looking retards. Whats cool about these pictures

You may not see it because you have no heritage.

Only-Rebel:


You may not see it because you have no heritage.

You read my mind...

LeoMax: ugly looking retards. Whats cool about these pictures

your frozen brain which has started to crack up.

LeoMax: ugly looking retards. Whats cool about these pictures

Don't mind them.
They look like hungry clowns

Just a few questions here:

It's called black heritage festival, but it seems to only showcase the different cultures of nigeria. shouldn't it have been named appropriately so? ie: nigerian heritage festival

why is it that the only thing we do is dress-up and dance? that's just a very tiny part of culture, but it seems it's the only thing we have to offer. where are the value systems, the social structure, political systems, the foods, languages, art & folk lores, history, artifacts, etc. these all need to be documented & presented. what's so special about dancing? even animals dance nah.., we have to demonstrate that we are at least higher, don't you think?

i really don't yet see any serious works/documentaries that are original & homemade. it seems, the best stories i know about our heritage are works done by the bbc & other foreign bodies. Do we really think we deserve respect from anybody at all when we can't even do a simple thing as tell our own stories? seriously smh..

why is lagos celebrating black history ....these are things done by black americans and afro descendants....what will happen if one european country start celebrating white history....they will call them nazis!!!!

SuyaEater: why is lagos celebrating black history ....these are things done by black americans and afro descendants....what will happen if one european country start celebrating white history....they will call them nazis!!!!

You have a point the title of the festival doesn't connect to the celebration but I am suspecting they mean african history or Nigerian history not the Legite "Black history" that african american and black Caribbeans celebrate. They need to change the title to Nigerian history festival

SuyaEater: why is lagos celebrating black history ....these are things done by black americans and afro descendants....what will happen if one european country start celebrating white history....they will call them nazis!!!!

i thought on the same lines. .

damilola15: Nice one, but are those Yoruba traditional dancers (2nd to last) wearing tennis?

if dem troway leg like cele una go talk
if dem wear bathroom slippers una go talk

now pesin wear shoe u com dey talk say na tennis shoe...Na wa o...shoe na shoe so biko free d guy

SuyaEater:
why is lagos celebrating black history ....these are things done by black americans and afro descendants....what will happen if one european country start celebrating white history....they will call them nazis!!!!

Should have been renamed 'African history' celebration.

The reason it's important to celebrate African history is due to the fact that the Arabian fundamentalist and Eurocentrics used to claim that there was no such thing as African history, furthermore, all the present day discourse on history by Arabian fundamentalist and Eurocentric has a systematic bias when it comes to the role of the African in world history.

The starting point for every intellectual conversation regarding history will stipulate the fact that humanity begins in Africa.

If humanity begins in Africa, then how is it that such has been ommitted from the current curriculum that teaches us history?

Here is proof that the current intellectual discourse has a systematic biased to the role of thr African in world history.

Does Lagos still do this festival in 2020 and if they do please post more pictures