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An amazing work of reportage by Nobel Prize Laureate V. S. Naipaul that studies belief and religion among the disparate individuals of Africa. Like all Naipaul’s “travel” publications, The Masque of Africa has a bigger story and objective: to evaluate the results of belief (in native animisms, the international beliefs of Christianity and Islam, the cults of commanders and mythological background) upon the development of world. It's a masterly achievement by one of the world’s best experts and one of its best authors.