Many sub-Saharan Africa populations have used, and sometimes still use masks & agrave; ritual, political or festive purposes (an excluding from the other not always the other). The mask must be considered as a whole that includes & agrave; both object - mask proper, but also the dancer, his costume and the whole of the visual event that they animate. This vitalis in our muscles, they are today only reproductive only by sculptual faces in wood.

although g & éacute; ; us to hide the face and the identity; carriers, the mastery masks, in particular by their characteristic stylistic characteristics, of the elections of information on the information on the identity; Populations that put them in the course of the particular of the particular. The masks were considering it as complex and living personalities for social social people who have cried them and use and use. The polys & eacute of the term & laquo; persona & raquo; & ndash; which was the title of an exhibition at the Mrac in 2009 & ndash; suits them well since this old Latin word serves & agrave; to finish the actor of this & acircri; . In several countries of West Africa, they still make it possible to convene supernatural entitles: divine & acute; More and more, however, we see them investing in entertainment as they are also the case in the Congo within the few populations that still make them dance. & Nbsp;

Awakes here uses characteristics of characteristics of a features that are usually incumbent on masks: sorcerer hunters, protectors of colts and villages, ducaters during initiations, guarantors of political powers, Activators of the Condit & Eacite;