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The African, and Spiritual, Origins of Carnival By Grisso*
It has become the received teaching in all the countries of the New World where Carnival has become an institution -- notably in Rio de Janeiro, New Orleans, and Port of Spain -- to ascribe its origins to white planters and costumed balls, rather than to its palpably African roots [1]. I want in this article to ground the Carnival firmly in Mother Africa, where it rightfully belongs.
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