Moving beyond travelogue, 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 nigeria, the lvory coast and gabon, and ends, as the country does, in south africa.
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