Life The World's Most Vivid Carnivals: When Colour Becomes a Weapon
Four carnivals, on four different continents, born in entirely different centuries, among entirely different peoples - and yet each one, scratched deep enough beneath the costumes and feathers, tells the same story: of people who had no power, and who took it back, if only for a few days a year, with colour, masks, and music. The world's most vivid carnivals aren't just a spectacle for tourists.