West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals

In this book, I bring an African voice to the copious volumes of studies on
African and African Diaspora linkages by focusing on African-styled masquerade carnivals. Taking into account the unique roles masquerades played in the
indigenous society, the voice with African linguistic, ethnic, and cultural roots
is crucial so not to have the details muddled in translation in an age of modernist
thinking. The book informs the reader where, when, and how the African masquerade genre was invented and explains the life force behind the festival play.
Masquerading in the Africana world was a dynamic device of narratology.
For the enslaved people, the art of masquerade engagee was one of the most potent survival devices in the Americas.
[2020]

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