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This study explores performative features of a children’s masking performance carried out among the Igbo of Southeastern Nigeria. Informed by the need to interrogate the cultural dimensions of the Bakhtinian notion of the carnivalesque, it discusses the extent to which some Igbo children’s masking activities resemble carnival performance. Using data drawn from fieldwork and conceptual precepts from carnivalesque theory, the study analyses Igbo children’s  ekpo  masking performance as a veritable kind of carnival presentation, by discussing the elements of Igbo children’s  ekpo  masking display which is usually characterized by humour, laughter, freedom to participate, reversal of hierarchy and merry-making. The study concludes that Igbo children’s  ekpo  masking presentation displays strong parallels with carnival performance.

“Incarnations of the spirits:” carnivalesque elements of Igbo children’s ekpo masking performance