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The masque of Africa : glimpses of African belief / V.S. Naipaul.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Africa--Religion.
- Africa.
- Religion.
- Africa--Description and travel.
- Physical Description:
- 241 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First North American edition.
- Other Title:
- Mask of Africa
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
- 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.
- Contents:
- The tomb at Kasubi
- Sacred places
- Men possessed
- The forest king
- Children of the old forest
- Private monuments, private wastelands.
- ISBN:
- 9780307270733 :
- 0307270734
- OCLC:
- 495271378
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