The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief
A Politics, Memoir, Religion book. I quite liked this book, a collection of six linked essays set in sub-Saharan Africa (Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast,...
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, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of civilization.From V. S. Naipaul: “For my travel books I travel on a theme. And the theme of The Masque of Africa is African belief. I begin in Uganda, at the center of the continent, do Ghana and Nigeria, the Ivory Coast and Gabon, and end at the bottom of...
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As crenas que interessam a Naipaul so as da frica negra (islamismo ele conhece bem). O pouco que ele aprende e fala delas, porm, lhe serve para perceber que no h soluo ou esperana vista para um continente dominado pelo caos, pela rapina, pela violncia e pela superpopulao. D tristeza de ler, mas muito bom. I quite liked this book, a collection of six linked essays set in sub-Saharan Africa (Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Gabon, and South Africa). The book offers a nuanced portrait of what a sociologist might call the 'performativity' of identity in several African societies in transition. Naipaul, who won the 2001 Nobel prize in... This is likely to be Naipaul's last original publication, and he is indeed a little slow, a little tired, and more than ever obsessed with his comfort and his finances. The book is also poorly edited. His perspective and style, however, remain, and I find them as attractive and original as ever. Naipaul has always had a distaste for...
