This is likely Nwa Agụ, in Umuahia, the leopard Ọ̀kọ̀nkọ̀ mask worn by high ranking men as the emblem of the society. The costume's che...

Chinua Achebe: What I think is the basic problem of a ... country like Nigeria is really what you might call a "crisis in the soul....

Entry from the dictionary of the Igbo language centering around the Onicha and Asaba dialects, by British government colonial anthropolog...

It is extremely rare, unheard of and possibly, barring this instance, virtually impossible to find a masking tradition in west Africa that...