Elaborate costumes, blaring music and vibrant processions took over Nigeria’s Lagos Island on Monday as the annual Fanti Carnival hit the streets.

The festivities have lit up Lagos’ financial hub for more than two centuries, celebrating the legacy of the Afro-Brazilian returnees who once settled in the city.

This year’s carnival featured musical performances, bedazzled horses, huge dragons and dancing stilt walkers.

In the 1800s, some formerly enslaved Africans and their descendants migrated back to the continent from countries like Brazil and Cuba.

Many Afro-Brazilians settled in Lagos Island, bringing new customs with them.

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