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Masks and trumpets for sale.

Thanks very much Ify.

Awolowo Road

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The costumes were made by people from the Lagos State Skills Acquisition Centre.

Area boys and girls (now called good boys and girls) are rehabilitated and tested for drugs. They are detoxified if they've got drugs in their system. They are then sent to the skills acquisition centre to learn a trade.

Destitutes and the jobless also attend the centre.

The costumes are given to the participants for free (sponsors take care of the costs).

Culture is not static, it's dynamic. Every culture borrows influences from those it comes across. The people who started carnival in Lagos had lived in Brazil for many years. They brought the culture with them.

It's similar to the other great Lagos festival, Eyo. It was brought down from Abeokuta.

Igunnuku was brought from Nupe.

Therefore, this is the culture of Lagos Island.

afam4eva: Fake azz carnival. Everything looks foreign. What happened to Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa culture. Why must we continue to be look inferior to foreigners. Why must all carnivals look like the brazillian and carribean carnivals. SMH.

It was a mixture of everything. I've already posted the Gelede (Yoruba) and Fulani groups. I couldn't get a pic of the Igbo group (I wasn't fast enough) sponsored by MTN. There were more masquerades both at the carnival and the boat regatta on sunday. But remember, carnival was brought to Lagos about a hundred and fifty years ago by the Brazilian returnees who had assimilated Brazilian culture. You've got to have some of that culture to make it complete.

[quote author=pretty_boi]@Naptu2 please kindly permit me to use some of the pics you posted on here for a compilation of yesterday's carnival on my blog. I wasn't at the carnival but I really wish I was in lag, I already got some pictures but I also need some of the ones you posted here so that more people can see the beauty of this stuff. I'd also post the link here. Thanks.[/quote]With all pleasure. You can use them.

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davades: That's me @d Lagos Carnival

Cool!

Stilts.

Cameraman sitting atop a bus stop shelter (anything to get a good pic).

I particularly liked the Sport City Surulere Group (I guess it's made up of people that train & do aerobics weekends @ the National Stadium). It was a large group, their music was banging, choreography on point and they had really pretty girls. They were subdivided into emerald and other subgroups.

Life Is A Gift:

Today before you think of saying an unkind word - Think of someone who can't speak .

Before you complain about the taste of your food - Think of someone who has nothing to eat.

Before you complain about your husband or wife - Think of someone who's crying out to God for a companion.

Today before you complain about life - Think of someone who went too early to heaven.

Before you complain about your children - Think of someone who desires children but they're barren.

Before you argue about your dirty house, someone didn't clean or sweep -Think of the people who are living in the streets.

Before whining about the distance you drive - Think of someone who walks the same distance with their feet.

And when you are tired and complain about your job - Think of the unemployed, the disabled and those who wished they had your job.

But before you think of pointing the finger or condemning another - Remember that not one of us are without sin and we all answer to one maker.

And when depressing thoughts seem to get you down - Put a smile on your face and thank God you're alive and still around.

*Life is a gift, Live it, Enjoy it, Celebrate it, And fulfill it. *

Kindness.

The radio car in the governor's motorcade. It jams radio signals preventing detonation of remote controlled bombs.

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It was fun all the way. A restaurant on Awolowo extended their eatery to the side walk. Munchies had 3 skimpily dressed girls dancing in front of their restaurant (there was quite a crowd there), Silverbird were blasting loud music down Awolowo Road. Free drinks! Of course in Central Lagos they had humongous speakers, canopies and plastic chairs by the side of the road (if you lived in Central Lagos you'll know what that means).

There were a lot of really tall girls wearing impossibly short shorts (hm!).

This is the Brazilian Quarters Club, opposite Campos Square Mini-Stadium.

Crowd on Five Cowry (Falomo) Bridge.

The Fulani Group.

Lagos State Ambulance Service (LASAMBUS)

The folks from Campos Square.

Iconic colours: I don't know how the other groups chose their colours, but Lafiaji has been associated with red and white or red and silver since the early eighties (maybe even before). Could it be because there are a lot of Egungun Iga there?

Of course the other iconic colour is yellow and green, associated with the Campos Square (the Brazilians), from where this started about a hundred and fifty years ago.

Gelede

Gelede.

Drummer.

There were lots of tourists having fun and snapping away. I even saw a Jackie Chan lookalike.