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Dance And Its Potentials: Implications And Challenges Of The Calabar Carnival Of Southern Nigeria, Josephine Awele Odunze
Dance And Its Potentials: Implications And Challenges Of The Calabar Carnival Of Southern Nigeria, Josephine Awele Odunze
International Review of Humanities Studies
Carnivals situate a state or nation in the global cultural map, for their especial merit of fostering for the host community, economic advancement and a healthier international profile in the diplomatic comity. The present study engages the relevance of the Calabar Carnival beyond the realms of entertainment and tourism, but as a politico-cultural agent in the global environment where diplomacy conditions the reputation, acceptability, and sometimes fortunes of nations. In a multicultural nation like Nigeria, where autonomous ethnic identity is an intense superstructure of indigenous beliefs, dressing, cuisine, and native performance; cultural diplomacy can play a significant role in regulating …