Tabla de Contenidos:
  • West Central Africa after European contact
  • Experiences of enslavement
  • Central Africans as individuals in community
  • Economic skills and domestic activity
  • Interpersonal relationships : courtesies and rites of passage
  • Religious cosmology and praxis
  • Christianity and associated religions
  • Accessing power : ritual war and masquerade
  • Pleasurable leisure : games, dance and music
  • Speech culture
  • Language legacy
  • Conclusion.