Fancy Dress – a festive hybrid performance genre with colorful costuming and masks, set to pulsating brass-band music – is wonderfully analyzed in this pioneering book, showing Black Atlantic carnival, Brazilian and Caribbean influences melding in a thoroughly Ghanaian form. With parades, balls, skits, street dancing and a host of imported and local characters, this lively, secular, democratic, century-old artistic complex has never before been shown in such historical and contemporary depth and detail.

Herbert M. Cole, University of California, Santa Barbara

Observation of Kakaamotobe for over a decade provides a sound basis for Micots’s profound contribution to understanding the arts of fancy dress. This book is insightful and a delight to read.

Robin Poynor, University of Florida

A prodigious work of scholarship, and a deep dive into the subject based on sustained relationships.

Jean Borgatti, Clark University