The Masque of Africa
Glimpses of African Belief
Understanding Africa is critical for all concerned with the world today: in what promises to be his final great work of reportage, one of the keenest observers of the continent surveys the effects of belief and religion on the disparate peoples of Africa.
The Masque of Africa is Nobel Prize-winning V. S. Naipaul's first major work of non-fiction to be published since his internationally bestselling Beyond Belief. Like all of Naipaul's great works of non-fiction, The Masque of Africa is superficially a book of travels — full of people, stories and landscapes he visits — but it also encompasses a larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (whether in indigenous animisms, faiths imposed by other cultures, or even the cults…
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October 4, 2011
V.S. NAIPAUL was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession.
His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.
In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood…
A Bend in the River
V. S. Naipaul; Introduction by Patrick Marnham
Literary Occasions
V. S. Naipaul
Magic Seeds
V.S. Naipaul
The Masque of Africa
V. S. Naipaul
A Way in the World
V.S. Naipaul
Between Father and Son
V.S. Naipaul
Beyond Belief
V. S. Naipaul
India: A Million Mutinies Now
V.S. Naipaul
Collected Short Fiction of V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul
A Writer's People
V.S. Naipaul
The Writer and the World
V.S. Naipaul
India: A Wounded Civilization
V.S. Naipaul
The Loss of El Dorado
V.S. Naipaul
A House for Mr. Biswas
V. S. Naipaul
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