The Masque of Africa
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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.