The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Hard Cover.
First North American edition. Jacket edge wear. Boards soiled, smudges on endpapers.
241 pp. Like all of V. S. Naipaul’s “travel” books, The Masque of Africa encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms.....