Lady of Africa Host Adire Street Culture Carnival Revolution In December
The most
talked about event in Africa, the adire street culture carnival finally has a
date, and it is bill to start on 25th ‘ 26th ‘ 27th December to 1st ‘ 2nd of
January 2022 in Lagos.
According to
press release from the management of the lady of Africa foundation organisers
of the annual event, this year Adire street culture carnival will take place at
five different zones in Lagos’ venue ‘’ Lagos lnland ‘lkeja ‘Badagry ,
Ikorodu,Epe.
According to
the organisers, this period was carefully selected because majority of Nigerians will be home on holidays
with their families.
As a
fall-out of the Adire street culture carnival revolution the organizers plan to
raise twenty five thousand new adire makers and marketers annually as part of
our contribution to the growth of the Small and medium scale industry in
Nigeria.
Yearly
millions of people around the globe attend the Nottinghill carnival in the
United Kingdom’ and we believe that Like that popular carnival’ Adire street
culture carnival will be a good opportunity to showcase our traditional wares’
art and crafts’ thereby promoting our culture too.’
The Lagos
home of Arts and culture and as usual the five days all family events’ will
start as early as 9 am on all of the five festival days in December to second
of January 2022’ Princess Oluwabukola Fasuyi’ The National coordinator of the
Lady of Africa foundation proudly declared that when it comes to Fashion and
textile industry in Africa. Nigeria occupies a pride of place.
As a country
globally recognized for her rich culture and diverse tradition ‘ our country
Nigeria boast of an incredible array of fashion choices and fabrics. Notable
amongst these fabrics is the Adire’ which has found favor amongst people all
over the continent of Africa and as far Europe America. Canada and Asia.
The fashion
industry has also continue to grow by the day with more and more people coming
into Adire production and bring in various innovations As a way of promoting
the very thriving fashion and garment industry. which by the way will also be
doubling as promotion for Nigerians culture and tradition’ Lady of Africa
foundation in conjunction with Proclips Media Communication Limited has
Embarked on a mission to take the highly appreciated fabrics to and entirely different
level through exhibitions and Carnivals she added that invitation is open to
all to experience the beauty and richness of the African culture which will be
abundantly on display on these special days including traditional cuisine
emu—fun fun (Africa palm wine), Eran-lgbe(bush meat) Ayo-olopon (traditional
boad game) an so on.
The
foundation will also in the coming year be taking this Adire promotion to Major
cities in south west ‘West Africa’ South Africa’ Europe Canada and America’ to satisfy
the craving of lovers of Adire fabrics in those part of the world.
The Lady of
Africa foundation hopes to Empower up to fifty thousand Nigeria women and youth
through its various activities Already. Lots of people in the country,
privileged and less privileged have been empowered through direct and indirect
job opportunities creation by the foundation through its various promotion and
marketing of fabrics. The foundation, she said, is also seizing the opportunity
to call for support from culture loving people‘ hip hop Artists’ corporates
organization’ federal and state government and parastatals to ensure that this
year’s event becomes a big success. The dress code for the carnival remains the
popular Nigeria indigo attire Adire.
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