Abstract
The book presents a unique two-year journey across Africa to the indigenous ethnic groups and their religions. The vivid description of the extreme adventure is alternated by thoughtful passages, where the author seeks a deeper understanding of the events experienced on the border of European understanding and sometimes beyond.
Philosophical and theological considerations aimed at grasping meaning are relieved by humorous inserts and an engaging factual description, focusing mainly on exceptional indigenous ethnic groups, among whom the author has spent much time, but also on the history, present and outlook of individual African regions. The readable story leads - in its inner plane - to the discovery of the Travel to the Gates of Damascus, similar to the one made two thousand years ago by the Jewish scholar Saul of Tarsus.