Africa’s most talked about event, the Adire Street Culture Carnival, finally gets a date for 25th, 26th and 27th of December in Lagos.
According to a press release from the Management of The Lady of
Africa Foundation, the organizers of the annual event, this year’s Adire Street
Culture Carnival will be taking place at the National Arts Theatre, the Lagos home
of arts and culture. And as usual the 3 Day all family event, will start as
early as 9am on all of the 3 festive days in December.
Princess Olubukola Adubi Fasuyi the National Co-ordinator 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 boasts of an incredible array of fashion choices
and fabrics. Notable amongst these fabrics is the adire, which has found favour
amongst people all over the continent of Africa and as far as Europe, America,
Canada and Asia.
“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 this very thriving fashion and garment
industry, which by the way will also be doubling as promotion for Nigeria’s
culture and tradition, Lady of Africa Foundation, has embarked on a mission to
take the highly appreciated fabric to an 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 (African palm
wine), eran igbe and so on.
“The foundation will also in the coming year, be taking this adire
promotion to South Africa, Europe and America, to satisfy the craving of lovers
of the adire fabric in those parts of the world. The Lady of Africa
Foundation hopes to empower up to 50million Nigerian women and youth through
its various activities. Already, lots of people in the country - privileged and
the less-privileged have been empowered through direct and indirect job
opportunities creation by the foundation through its various promotion and
marketing of the fabric.
The foundation she said is also seizing the opportunity to call for
support from culture-loving people, corporate organisations, federal and state
governments and parastatals to ensure that this years’ event becomes a big success.
The dress code for the carnival remains the popular Nigerian
indigo attire (adire), which can be ordered at Adunbisworld.com, OLX Nigeria and
Konga.com
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