Edition |
1st North American ed. |
Description |
241 pages ; 25 cm |
Note |
Includes index. |
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. |
Subject |
Africa -- Religion.
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Africa. |
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Religion. |
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Africa -- Description and travel.
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Added Title |
Mask of Africa |
ISBN |
9780307270733 : $26.95 |
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0307270734 |
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