The masque of Africa : glimpses of African belief /
Mask of Africa
V.S. Naipaul.
- 1st North American ed.
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
- 241 p. ; 25 cm.
The tomb at Kasubi -- Sacred places -- Men possessed -- The forest king -- Children of the old forest -- Private monuments, private wastelands.
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.