Overtly Muslim, Covertly Boni
Competing Calls of Religious Allegiance on the Kenyan Coast
Biographical note
Mark R J Faulkner, Ph.D. (2001) in Religions of Africa, University of London, lectures in Religion in Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). He has lived and worked in Africa for more than fifteen years.
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All those interested in religion in Africa and the encounter between indigenous religions and Islam, hunter-gatherer peoples, the Swahili coast, development work, land conflict and politics.
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