African Gods. Contemporary Rituals and Beliefs

African Gods is a photographic journey through a world of soothsayers, healers, priests, witch doctors, and prophets. Daniel Lainé's haunting photographs capture moments of intense spirituality during rituals, exorcisms, dances, and magical rites, many of which are open only to initiates, and some of which will soon be los' forever. A spiritual journey through twelve African countries : Nigeria, South Africa, the lvory Coast, Benin, Togo, Guinea, Cameroon, Ghana, Mali, Congo, Gabon, and Uganda - African Gods is as enlightening as it is visually stunning. . . Daniel Lainé has been a freelance photojournalist since 1980, including six months as staff reporter for Agence France Presse in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in 1985. In 1988, he won the Prix de la Villa Médicis Hors les Murs for a series of photographs of African kings, and in 1991 he was awarded first prize in the World Press Photographs People in the News category. With forewords by :. Tobie Nathan is a professor of clinical and, pathological psychology at the University of Paris 8. Tobie Nathan founded France's first ethnopsychiatry service and has written thirty books, including several highly successful novels. Anne Stamm is an ethnologist. She lectures tiat the University of Paris and has written a, number of books on Africa. Pierre Saulnier is a priest and anthropologist. He spent twenty years in the Central African Republic, where he taught at the. ü ; seminary university in Bangui. He has written several studies on Vodun.