MASKSONG FOR OUR TIMES Gifts and cultural change who are

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ISBN-10 : 0982503091

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MASKSONG FOR OUR TIMES Gifts and cultural change who areMasksong for our Times is a collection of poetry composed mainly in the masquerade idiom, which is characterized by song and chants, satirical comments and divinatory prophecies. As a central figure of the African traditional world, the masquerade speaks with the voice of an ancestral spirit, evoking the authority to say what everyone else avoids saying and the license to articulate hard, uncomfortable truths about society. By drawing upon age old