West African Secret Societies: Their Organisations, Officials and Teaching

»My one desire in this work has been to record something of the old tribal discipline and society organisation of West Africa, now slowly but surely passing, and to do this as far as possible without an attempt “to point a moral or adorn a tale.” It is an effort all too incomplete, but it may help somebody else to do better. For all mistakes and omissions I apologise. The words that some will consider incorrectly spelled may serve to enforce the need there is for some standardization in the spelling of West African place- and tribal-names.«