The African Masking Process offers one possible corrective to the gaps in our understanding of masks and mas' by employing an African (Yoruba, Igbo, and Bantu) derived framework for explicating the trope of the mask. The four-part process outlined in this book allows us to examine the psycho-spiritual functions of the mask and in some cases how this psycho-spiritual ritual possession induced by the mask directly influences the sociopolitical function of the mask. The wider implication of this project is the efficacy of the African world view beyond masks and masquerade in literary studies,...