Exploring the Occult and Paranormal in West Africa

Making critical surveys, scholars of humanities and social sciences from Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Benin, and Burkina Faso examine the emergence, circulation, and social significance of occult and paranormal phenomena in West Africa, which have mushroomed with socio-economic globalization and economic neoliberalism. The topics include a linguistic perspective on the psychopathology of communication in occult and paranormal phenomena, the search for justice through the occult and paranormal in Nigeria, the logic and magic of life-affirmation in Africa, the value of indigenous knowledge, and establishing a new rapport with the invisible world. There is no index. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)