This book explores dream discourse in the negotiation of specialist identity among Zezuru (Zimbabwe), Temne (Sierra Leone), Igbo (Nigeria) and Tukolor (Senegal); in everyday life among Berti (Sudan), Yansi (Zaire) and Ingessana (Sudan); and in the construction of Christian experience in nineteenth-century Yoruba history (Nigeria) and in independent African churches.

M.C. Jedrej is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, has written extensively on the Ingessana (Sudan) and the Mende (Sierra Leone), among each of whom he has conducted several years' field research.
Rosalind Shaw is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University, and has published several articles based on her field research among the Temne (Sierra Leone) and the Igbo (Nigeria). She is Deputy Editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa.