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SUMMARY
Culture influences carnival and this is seen with the celebration of the Calabar carnival done every year since the year 2004. The carnival has been able to draw supports from the international community and overtime, lots of manpower from the international community has been invested towards the success of the carnival. The carnival has also helped to ensure that the core culture of the people of Cross River state has not been lost in transit as well as the provision of the provision of workshops that engages both participants and spectators of the Calabar Carnival. However, this study aims at the impact of the carnival in Nigeria.
Calabar is the state capital of Nigeria's Cross River State. It was first referred to as Akwa Akpa in Efik. The city is bordered by the Calabar and Great Kwa rivers and tributaries of the Cross River (from its inland delta). When the slave trade was abolished in the middle of the 19th century, Calabar focused primarily on the exportation of palm oil and palm kernels. After accepting British protection in 1884, the area known as old Calabar served as the capital for the Oil Rivers protectorates from 1885 to 1893, the Niger Coast Protectorate from 1893 to 1900, and the capital for southern Nigeria from 1900 to 1906 until the British moved its administrative headquarters elsewhere.
