Africa’s most talked about event,
the Adire Street Culture Carnival, finally gets a date for 25th, 26th and 27th
December2016 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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