Trinidad Carnival, Queens Park Savannah
Trinidad and Tobago Carnival-Trinidad and Tobago
The Trinidad and Tobago Carnival is an annual festival or celebration that was started in the 18th century by enslaved Africans during the pre-Lent celebrations of their French plantation masters. Before the lent season, their wealthy French traders and plantation owners often organised grand balls and parties to help usher in the lent season.
Enslaved Africans were not allowed to participate in the celebration, leading them to create their own festival.
Theirs was an imitation and mockery of the French but later became a celebration of African cultures that had survived the crossover from Africa to the Caribbean and were still being practised and observed.
The festival is held on the Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday of every year and involves a lot of music, dancing eating and a very colourful parade.
