All Ah We is One
Caribbean Carnival Costume
Year: 2025
Publisher: Common Threads Press
Author: Aisling Serrant
Illustrator: Rachel Moss
Format: Paperback
Dimensions: 200x140mm
Extent: 80pp
ISBN: 9781068625060
Caribbean Carnivals have been taking place around the UK since 1959. Drawing from this rich and radical history, All Ah We is One explores Carnival through one of its most vibrant and unmissable features: costume. First turned to by former slaves in the Caribbean as an act of reclamation and quiet resistance, with roots in West African and European masquerade alike, the colourful costumes of Carnival weekend remain a vital mode of self-expression, protest, and camaraderie.