Masquerades

During the annual Eyo festival in Lagos, drumming and singing accompany the masquerades, and the streets are usually filled with people who come to watch the performance.

The Egungun masquerade festival is an annual festival in Yoruba land that features masquerades believed to be the spirits of departed ancestors.

The masquerades while sitting on the bare floor urged Nigerians to ensure their go and collect their Permanent Voters' Card which will enable them to cast their votes on the days of the elections.

In 1978, The Masquerades wooed audiences in tight costumes, red capes, and sequin masks.

I recall that after my father’s death, there was a festival at our house with masquerades and a large crowd.

The highlights of the 2024 Obeledu yam festival included church service, traditional dances, yam competition, display by masquerades amongst others.

The second day witnessed the main activities comprising the acrobatic performance by the Zangbeto masquerades from various groups led by the ‘Kregbetos.

We have noted with concern some misleading and disgusting statements attributed to the former MDC-T Secretary-General Mr Nickson ‘Mao’ Nyikadzino wherein he masquerades as the new MDC-T Acting President.

The celebration is followed by various cultural dances with the display of masquerades from different clans or groups.

The rumblings of drums, rhythmic beats punctuating the delivery of spoken word, a cultural dance and drama, and the high flutes recalling the masquerades who have patrons all week were some of the flavours of the evening.

A mosque was vandalized while worshippers were severely injured by masquerades in Ekiti State.

Bello’s remark was in response to the allegation by James Faleke, the then running mate to the late Abubakar Audu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, who had accused Bello of donating six Toyota Venza cars and cash gifts of N2m each to masquerades.

Egúngún masquerades are celebrated in South Carolina, Cuba, Brazil, Trinidad and other places in the Caribbean.

GDPR masquerades, and quite convincingly, as "protection" for beleaguered tech users.

They’re resurrected decades later into a dystopian future that masquerades as a utopia, and the chase begins again.

This deeper estrangement that masquerades as intimacy is the problem of the house.

Foreigners were amazed at the sheer luxury of the sumptuous balls and masquerades.

Her hair was cut short for the part, as her character masquerades as a boy for much of the film.

This recently rediscovered novel displays familiar feminist SF conventions, which include a heroine narrator who masquerades as a man, the exploration of sexist mores, and the description of a future hollow earth society where women are equal.

Throughout much of the rest of the play, Salieri masquerades as Mozart's ally to his face while doing his utmost to destroy his reputation and any success his compositions may have.