Will There Be Calabar Carnival 2022? (When And All You Need To Know)
Will There Be Calabar Carnival 2022? When is Calabar Carnival 2022?. Are you interested in knowing if there will be Calabar Carnival 2022/2023? Calabar, Carnival website? if yes, this post is for you. It contains all you need to know about Calabar Carnival 2022.
Calabar Carnival 2022/2023
After two years of absence, the Carnival Calabar, Africa’s Biggest Street party will return this December 2022 with glamour and glitz.
This was disclosed on Tuesday, June 28, 2022, after a meeting of approval was held by the Cross River State Executive Council at the Government House, Calabar.
Hon. Eric Anderson, Cross River State Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, moved the motion and was duly approved by members of the Council that the Carnival Calabar should return in 2022.
The Calabar Carnival is a fairly new addition to the annual festival calendar of Nigeria, since it first commenced in 2006, although it’s now held annually and is dubbed “Nigeria’s largest street party.”
It is a month-long carnival that lasts from December 1 to 31 every year and has a program of events including dancing, music, and other cultural events; something different every day.
It’s a lovely celebration of Nigeria’s great cultural mosaic.
Will There Be Calabar Carnival 2022?
YES!
There will be CALABAR CARNIVAL this year.
This means that CALABAR CARNIVAL will hold this year.
Now that you know that the Calabar carnival will hold, when is it?
When Is Calabar Carnival?
The Cross River State Government has announced 1st December 2022 to 31st December 2022 as the latest dates for the 2022 Calabar Carnival.
Donald Duke, had a vision of making the state a hub for tourism and hospitality in Nigeria and Africa, with a view towards celebrating aspects of local heritage and culture, and to promoting this culture to the wider world.
Since then it’s taken off much more than anticipated, and has become “Nigeria’s biggest street party”!
The programme of events at the carnival is drafted each year by the committee in charge of tourism and cultural activities and new initiatives are introduced every year, but there’s always a focus on local heritage and culture.
Past events have included football competitions, music performances from both local and international artists, the annual Carnival itself, boat regattas, fashion shows, beauty pageants, traditional dancing, and even essay-writing competitions, all geared towards celebrating Nigerian culture!
About Cross River State
Cross River State is a state in the South South geopolitical zone of Nigeria.
Named for the Cross River, the state was formed from the eastern part of the Eastern Region on 27 May 1967.
Its capital is Calabar, it borders to the north by Benue State, to the west by Ebonyi State and Abia State, and to the southwest by Akwa Ibom State while its eastern border forms part of the national border with Cameroon.
Originally known as the South-Eastern State before being renamed in 1976, Cross River State formerly included the area that is now Akwa Ibom State, which became a distinct state in 1987.
Of the 36 states, Cross River is the nineteenth largest in area and 27th most populous with an estimated population of over 3.8 million as of 2016.[5] Geographically, the state is mainly divided between the Guinean forest–savanna mosaic in the far north and the Cross–Sanaga–Bioko coastal forests in the majority of the interior of the state.