The mask of Africa
Subtitle: glimpses of African belief
By: V.S. Naipaul.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780307270733
Subjects: Africa -- Religion; Africa -- Description and travel
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The tomb at Kasubi; title: Sacred places; title: Men possessed; title: The forest king; title: Children of the old forest; title: Private monuments, private wastelands.