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Author:

Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-

Title:

The masque of Africa : glimpses of African belief / V.S. Naipaul.

Edition:

1st North American ed.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

241 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

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

Contents:

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

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0307270734
9780307270733

OCLC:

(OCoLC)495271378

LCCN:

2010001256

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