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TRINIDAD
By Denson Pierre
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Trinidad & Tobago Carnival remains one of the least understood of the world’s great and powerful folk festivals. Attempts at explaining it would always take historians, ethno-anthropologist and party people a great deal of time over the basics as to what is the nature of the spirit that drives this tsunami of creativity, music and revelry to take over an entire nation for such a long period of time, in tropical paradise conditions, each year, since the late 18th century. Over the next twelve months The Sentinel will undertake to not just offer snippets of the splendour but ultimately also be part of the move to deposit some of the famous Trini flavour, as a showcase, right here in Amsterdam during the summer of 2015.
‘One of the least understood of the world’s great and powerful folk festivals’
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