USA Africa Dialogue Series - Review of Susanne Wenger: Artist and Priestess by Sule Egya

I particularly like these words in this review:

"Although she had to persuade Susanne Wenger before she got the permission to write this book, Luzzatto may have done for Susanne Wenger what the latter did for the Yoruba traditional religion. I explain: it is certainly not the first book or only book on Susanne Wenger, but it is perhaps the most authentic, the most touching, the most moving because Luzzatto allows us into Susanne Wenger's intense shrine of words, uninterrupted. Each sentence is intense, mystical, indeed godly. This is because Susanne Wenger's mind, in her

diligence as a priestess, continued to move into the depth of the supernatural, of spiritual essence where, as she says, "Each shrine is a spiritual pilgrimage towards psychic depth" (169). This book is a shrine, well built, that leads us into that spiritual nirvana Susanne Wenger attained".

Thanks

Toyin

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