Africa Dances

“Humorous, trenchant, perceptive and redolent with music, magic and dance, this is the account of a young man’s odyssey through the heart of primeval Africa.

Geoffrey Gorer went to Africa with Féral Benga, the famous black dancer of Paris, to study native dances. His journey took him through French West Africa and along to the Gold Coast and Nigeria, and his book brilliantly relives an Africa on the point of transition, when a whole landscape of ritual and belief was abut to disappear amongst the shadows for ever.”