The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief by V.S. Naipaul

The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief

V.S. Naipaul

256 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history travel reflective slow-paced
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Like all of V. S. Naipaul’s “travel” books, The Masque of Africa encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders and myt...

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