The much-anticipated and Africa’s most talked about event, the adire street culture carnival will be staged on December 25, 26 and 27 and on January 1st and 2nd, 2022, in Lagos.
According to press release issued by the management of the lady of Africa foundation, the organisers of the annual event, this year ‘adire street culture carnival’ will take place at five different zones in Lagos including; Lagos lsland, Ikeja, Badagry, Ikorodu and Epe, during a period 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 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 ‘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-day all-family event will start as early as 9am on all of the five festival days in December to the second of January 2022.
Princess Oluwabukola Fasuyi, the National coordinator of the Lady of Africa foundation declared that when it comes to fashion and textile industry in Africa, Nigeria occupies a pride of place.
As a country globally recognised for her rich culture and diverse tradition, our country Nigeria boast of an incredible array of fashion choices and fabrics. Notable among these fabrics is the a dire, which has found favour among people all over the continent of Africa and as far Europe, America, Canada and Asia.
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The fashion industry has also continued to grow by the day with more and more people coming into adire production and bringing in various innovations as a way of promoting the thriving fashion and garment industry.
And as a way of doubling promotion for Nigerians culture and tradition, the 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.
Princess Fasuyi added that invitation is open to all to experienced in 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 Western Nigeria, West Africa, South Africa, Europe, Canada and America to satisfy the craving of lovers of adire fabrics in those parts of the world.
The dress code for the carnival remains the popular Nigeria indigo attire adire.
