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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 the continent, in South Africa. My theme is belief, not political or economical life; and yet at the bottom of the continent the political realities are so overwhelming that they have to be taken into account.“Perhaps an unspoken aspect of my inquiry was the possibility of the subversion of old Africa by the ways of the outside world. The theme held until I got to the South, when the clash of the two ways of thinking and believing became far too one-sided. The skyscrapers of Johannesburg didn’t rest on sand. The older world of magic felt fragile, but at the same time had an enduring quality. You felt that it would survive any calamity.“I had expected that over the great size of Africa the practices of magic would significantly vary. But they didn’t. The diviners everywhere wanted to ‘throw the bones’ to read the future, and the idea of ‘energy’ remained a constant, to be tapped into by the ritual sacrifice of body parts. In South Africa body parts, mainly of animals, but also of men and women, made a mixture of ‘battle medicine.’ To witness this, 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 my book.”The Masque of Africa is a masterly achievement by one of the world’s keenest observers and one of its greatest writers.From the Hardcover edition. Ideadiez.com is and in to a was not you i of it the be he his but for are this that by on at they with which she or from had we will have an what been one if would who has her ... Mahatma Gandhi - Wikipedia Gandhi was 24 when he arrived in South Africa in 1893 to work as a legal representative for the Muslim Indian Traders based in the city of Pretoria. Loot.co.za: Sitemap 9781934840252 1934840254 Cvn-74 John C. Stennis U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier W. Frederick Zimmerman 9781436870344 1436870348 Hilda - A Story of Calcutta (1898) Sara ... Loot.co.za: Sitemap 9780602312770 0602312779 Lighthouse White Level: Horses of the Sea Single Carol Hosking 9781436882941 143688294X Intuitive Calculations - The Most Concise Methods ... Full text of "NEW " - Internet Archive Search the history of over 279 billion web pages on the Internet. Erotica Revealed - Books Written by Ageless Erotica Edited By: Joan Price Seal Press ISBN: 1580054412 February 2013 Reviewed By: Sacchi Green. The theme of Ageless Erotica has a special appeal for me ...
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