It's nice being back again on a #MarketFriday. Last week was so busy for me because of my sister's wedding planning that started on Friday and was concluded on Saturday last week. You know how hectic wedding planning is in Nigeria and how lovely and beautiful Nigerian traditional marriages are. Do you want to know more check my blog and you'll find some post relating to that. Never mind it's Market Friday and I'll be looking at cultural diffusion that's associated with goods in the market most especially attires and materials gotten from other parts of the world. Greetings from @salvadornkpara.
This is my entry for this week's Market Friday challenge hosted by @dswigle a good woman. If I may ask have you followed her, if you haven't do so now. She's very kind and has been so inspiring. She took her time to give me directions on how to go about my way on the #Marketfriday challenge. Thanks once again for the help.
This week's challenge will expose some aspects of cultural diffusion most especially from India and the other Asian countries that come in form of materials used in sewing some traditional attires in Nigeria.
Our focus today is the Creek Road market in Port Harcourt Township, Nigeria. We'll look at how this cultural attires have come to shape the traditional marriage in Nigeria and becoming part of the cultural heritage of the region.
Using the Indian Saree Blouse for Traditional Marriage in Nigeria
It's now a well known culture for intending bride's from Kalabari, Okrika, Ikwerre and even Igboland to use the Indian Saree to sew blouse for their traditional marriage attires. All these ethnic groups are in Nigeria. It'll interest you to noted that the world is actually small and there's no limit when we exchange cultures.
The photo contains an Indian Saree Blouse
Culture is very important and the movement of cultures from one region to the other is the order of the day this period. Most wrappers that are in the photos below didn't originate from Nigeria most of them are diffused to Nigeria through trade.
During my shopping adventure, a passerby stopped over the shop and asked for about two dozens of Indian Saree.
All photos used in this post is taken and owned by me. Kindly use any of the photos of they interest you.
To participate do the following:
- Go to the market! Any market will do! Food, Clothing, Plant or Animal, if you wish. You can go to the zoo or an art auction. Anywhere or anything that you pay money for a service.
- Take pictures! Be creative (or not)
- Tell us a little bit about the market, what brought you here?
- Post the picture(s)
- Don’t forget to hashtag it! #MarketFriday by @dswigle
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