Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention. The Museum for African Art & Prestel Verlag, 1996 - 272 pp. with 250 color and b/w plates / illustrations - Clothbound with dustjacket - 31x24 - new copy. This study traces the art and cultural history of these very special African people from their legendary flight from the mystical highlands of the interior of Guinea to the coast, in their attempt to conserve their own religious ritual, to the eventual destruction of their traditions at mid century with the conversion to Islam and, with independence from France, the establishment of the Republic of Guinea under an iconoclastic Marxist regime.