Bibliograph

The masque of Africa, glimpses of African belief, V.S. Naipaul

Type

Label

The masque of Africa, glimpses of African belief, V.S. Naipaul

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The masque of Africa

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

637439013

Responsibility statement

V.S. Naipaul

Sub title

glimpses of African belief

Summary

I spent eight to nine months in East Africa in 1966. A month in Tanzania; six weeks or so in the Kenya Highlands; the rest of the time in Uganda. Some years later I even used a version of Uganda in a piece of fiction; you can do that only when you feel you have a fair idea of a place, or an idea sufficient for your needs. Forty-two years after that first visit I went back to Uganda. I was hoping to get started there on this book about the nature of African belief, and I thought it would be better to ease myself into my subject in a country I knew or half knew. But I found the place eluding me

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