The Masque of Africa
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Product details:
- Edition number New Edit/Cover
- Publisher Picador
- Date of Publication 2 October 2025
- Number of Volumes B-format paperback
- ISBN 9781035061730
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 197x130 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
An astonishingly prescient, beautifully written and deeply humane work of non-fiction from one of the greatest travel writers oft the twentieth century
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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 but enduring quality of the old world of magic. To witness the ubiquity of such ancient ritual, to be given some idea of its power, was to be taken far back to the beginning of things. To reach that beginning was the purpose of this book.
‘The quality of Naipaul’s writing – simple, concise, engaging – rarely varies . . . Above all, Naipaul’s latest African journey is eyewitness reporting at its best’ – Time
Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.
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