https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqRC8OCP6j8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqRC8OCP6j8

According to EFCC Chairman Ibrahim Magu; “Corruption is the biggest strategy to human kind. Your excellency, corruption is worse than all the diseases now running about. “And I strongly believe, Your Excellency, that even the coronavirus is caused by corruption."

I guess he came to this conclusion after so much research work done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHhaKIZAVPw

Dunno if this is the right place to post this. One thing I know for sure is that it's funny as hell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHhaKIZAVPw

This is one hell of a performance that should leave you in stitches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIETmM_769I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgLrqzC7vPc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Ej1PvtOoc

wonderful display by these Benin Masquerades

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Ej1PvtOoc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Ej1PvtOoc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3nlPjQxTJU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3nlPjQxTJU

PAGAN9JA:
Fool they are not theatrical performances. They are original components of African religions and spirituality.

Bless you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FWiitMLlqI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FWiitMLlqI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b0y9OMQpfc

Hello Nairalanders. Of late, I have been seeing some members create topics based on induction into their village age-grade and others post on other cultural activities like new-yam festival or masquerade festival. Such posts gladden my heart to read for I am a lover of African culture and nature; the pictures in the posts also show how beautiful and rich our diverse cultures in Nigeria are.

The only problem I have with those posts is that most data they provided were pictorial. Now, the pictures were beautiful I won’t deny; but art itself also encompasses music/poetry, dance/choreography etc.

I decided to create this topic to share some random amateur masquerade footages I have gotten over the years to help viewers have a feel on not only the pictorial view of an average masquerade festival; in my own case, in Igbo Land.

The mystique surrounding masquerades is one key African/Igbo cultural component that survived western influence. In Igbo land, it is generally believed that masquerades are spirits which spring from the soil, precisely, ant hills.

Though masquerade festival is observed everywhere in Igboland, the celebration and masquerades differ from community to community. Udi (Enugu state) which is where I am from has produced so many great masquerades which have their various functions and prestige within their individual community. Masquerades found in Udi include and not limited to Igaa, Ishi aziza and Inyi-agba-oku.

For example, Inyi-agba-oku masquerade is a wise masquerade and is known for “Igbuevu” which means speaking in proverbs and parables (through musical performances), to the awe and applauds from the audience.

Growing up, I used to watch Eyo masquerade of Lagos and kwagh-hir theatrical performers from Benue state (loved watching it on NTA that year) and Ada-Mmonwu masquerades to mention a few.

Please, I would love anyone of you viewers to also help in posting videos of masquerades of their own cultures; for I don’t intend this to be an Igbo only affair. Thank You.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RldJs5i3MQ

Hello Nairalanders. Of late, I have been seeing some members create topics based on induction into their village age-grade and others post on other cultural activities like new-yam festival or masquerade festival. Such posts gladden my heart to read for I am a lover of African culture and nature; the pictures in the posts also show how beautiful and rich our diverse cultures in Nigeria are.

The only problem I have with those posts is that most data they provided were pictorial. Now, the pictures were beautiful I won’t deny; but art itself also encompasses music/poetry, dance/choreography etc.

I decided to create this topic to share some random amateur masquerade footages I have gotten over the years to help viewers have a feel on not only the pictorial view of an average masquerade festival; in my own case, in Igbo Land.

The mystique surrounding masquerades is one key African/Igbo cultural component that survived western influence. In Igbo land, it is generally believed that masquerades are spirits which spring from the soil, precisely, ant hills.

Though masquerade festival is observed everywhere in Igboland, the celebration and masquerades differ from community to community. Udi (Enugu state) which is where I am from has produced so many great masquerades which have their various functions and prestige within their individual community. Masquerades found in Udi include and not limited to Igaa, Ishi aziza and Inyi-agba-oku.

For example, Inyi-agba-oku masquerade is a wise masquerade and is known for “Igbuevu” which means speaking in proverbs and parables (through musical performances), to the awe and applauds from the audience.

Growing up, I used to watch Eyo masquerade of Lagos and kwagh-hir theatrical performers from Benue state (loved watching it on NTA that year) and Ada-Mmonwu masquerades to mention a few.

Please, I would love anyone of you viewers to also help in posting videos of masquerades of their own cultures; for I don’t intend this to be an Igbo only affair. Thank You.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b0y9OMQpfc

Let me drop some famous Igbo ones to accompany the video i posted above:

1. A dead person shall have all the sleep necessary.

2. If the vulture fails to hover at the end of a sacrifice, then you know that something happened in the land of spirits.

3. If a snake fails to show its venom, little kids will use it in tying firewood.

4. The grasshopper that runs into the mist of fowls ends up in the land of spirits.

5. If a child lifts his father, his scrotum will blindfold him.

6. If one fails to lick his lips, the harmattan will do it.

7. "Our wife, our wife": come midnight and we will know whose wife she really is.

8. When sleep becomes enjoyable, we snore.

9. Whichever son is able should bury his father. The first son did not kill him.

10. A wayward woman is like the weaver bird. She uses her perch on one tree to scout other trees.

11. A man who believes that he can do everything, let him dig a grave and bury himself.

12. A slave boy is blamed no matter what he does: If he does not wash his hands, he is accused of being dirty. If he washes his hands, he is accused of wasting water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njiyPUVHmCA

@OP, your question is quite vague for you havent stated what exactly you mean by "artwork"; art itself involves human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts, expressing the author's imaginative, conceptual ideas, or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.

From the above, i would love to ask; the artwork you seek, is it music, poetry, paintings, sculpture, etc? Would you want to include times of the stone age and iron age like the times of the Nok people of present Plateau state, or the Nsukka, Ife, Benin, Igbo-Uku sculptures?

In terms of performing arts; masquerade comes to my mind. We have Eyo in Lagos, various Mmounwu in the south-east, to mention a few.

Well, i leave you with the above video which is one of my favorites ive seen online in recent times, which is a performance of a masquerade in the south-east; Udi in Enugu state to be precise.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czMIH4Im6Z4&t=48s

Dont forget to include cultural aspects.....the above represents enugu state; Obinagu Udi to be precise

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