The Masque of Africa
11 July 2019Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'Compelling, insightful, often sombrely beautiful’ Sunday Telegraph
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...
Details
11 July 2019336 pages
9781529009484Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Naipaul travels, he asks, he listens attentively and, above all else, he notices, often seeing what others do not or cannot. That acute gift has never left him . . . he is sustained by the old ideal of unadorned truth-tellingNew Statesman
The quality of Naipaul’s writing – simple, concise, engaging – rarely varies . . . Above all, Naipaul’s latest African journey is eyewitness reporting at its bestTime
Compelling, insightful, often sombrely beautifulSunday Telegraph
