Moving with the Face of the Devil: Art and Politics in Urban West Africa

Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (26cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xxiv,281,[7]pp; illus. Some trivial wear to lower board edges, else Fine in a Near Fine, lightly shelfworn dustjacket. Scholarly volume illuminating "the vigorously creative traditions of Yoruba art in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and shows how the city's secret societies have made these traditions an integral part of life in urban West Africa" (from front flap). (Inventory #: 37337)