At the Back of the Black Man's Mind, or, Notes on the Kingly Office in West Africa
London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1906.
Octavo, xvi, 288 pages plus 21 plates and an addendum slip on page xv.
Modern half morocco and marbled papered boards, all edges uncut; pale foxing to a few leaves; an excellent copy with a 'Presentation Copy' blindstamp on the title and preface leaves.
'The object of this little work is twofold. In the first place I wish to show that, concurrent with fetishism or Jujuism, there is in Africa a religion giving us a much higher conception of God than is generally acknowledged ... And, in the second place, I am anxious to make clear the vital importance of the kingly office to the African communities' (preface).
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