Maske
By: Phyllis Galembo ; introduction by Chika Okeke-Agulu
Contributors: Okeke-Agulu, Chika
Publisher: Boot; Distribution in USA & Canada by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781905712175
Subjects: Social life and customs; Carnival masks; Pictorial works; Carnival; Masks
Description: "Maske is an album of Phyllis Galembo's powerful and thrilling masquerade photographs, from Nigeria, Benin, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Zambia and Haiti.  With an introduction by art historian Chika Okeke-Agulu, Galembo's pictures describe traditional masqueraders and carnival characters and are themselves works of vivid artistic imagination." -- back dust jacket.
Table of contents: title: The persistence of memory / Chika Okeke-Agulu; title: Makishi masquerades: Zambia; title: Animal and spirit masquerades: Burkina Faso; title: Masquerades of Cross River: Nigeria; title: Gelede and Egungun masquerades: Benin; title: Secret societies of Freetown: Sierra Leone; title: The Winneba Fancy Dress Festival: Ghana; title: Jacmel Kanaval: Haiti.