The masque of Africa : glimpses of African belief /

Naipaul, V. S. 1932-

The masque of Africa : glimpses of African belief / Mask of Africa Glimpses of African belief V.S. Naipaul. - 1st North American ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. - 241 p. ; 25 cm.

The tomb at Kasubi -- Sacred places -- Men possessed -- The forest king -- Children of the old forest -- Private monuments, private wastelands.

Nobel Prize-winning author Naipaul spirals outward from the central African country of Uganda, to Nigeria, Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Gabon, and concluding in South Africa, to unearth in six chapters a sense of African ancestral belief and practice.

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Africa--Description and travel.
Africa--Religion.

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