The Lagos Carnival

Lagos Carnival

From I Love Lagos website:
Held during the Black Heritage Festival, the tradition of the Lagos Carnival has been held for over a century and is a celebration of the citiesancestry and the plurality of its identify.

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Street carnivals were first held by the returnee emancipados and their descendants from Brazil, Cuba, Sierra Leone and Liberia, who brought with the4m a vibrant culture that still exists today: one of which evolved in 2010 into the pulsating and exciting experience that is the Lagos Carnival.

Image by I Love Lagos

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