The Masque of Africa
Glimpses of African Belief
Authors: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Limited · Published: 2010
Pages: 324
Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures, Religion / General, Religion / Folk & Tribal, Religion / History, Travel / Africa / General
Description
Like all of V. S. Naipaul's 'travel' books, encompasses amuch 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 mythical history) upon the progress of civilization
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