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The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief

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Description for The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief Paperback. An astonishingly prescient, beautifully written and deeply humane new work of non-fiction from one of our greatest living writers. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 276.

Moving beyond travelogue, V. S. Naipaul's The Masque of Africa considers 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 African civilization. Beginning in Uganda, at the centre of the continent, Naipaul’s journey takes in Ghana and Nigeria, the Ivory Coast and Gabon, and ends, as the country does, in South Africa.

Focusing upon the theme of belief – though sometimes the political or economical realities are so overwhelming that they have to be taken into account – Naipaul examines the fragile ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330472043
SKU
V9780330472043
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About Sandie Jones
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession. His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma ... Read more

Reviews for The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief
Compelling, insightful, often somberly beautiful.
Sunday Telegraph
Naipaul travels, he asks, he listens attentively and, above all else, he notices, often seeing what others do not or cannot. That acute gift has never left him . . . he is sustained by the old ideal of unadorned truth-telling.
New Statesman
The quality of Naipaul’s writing – ... Read more

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