Flash of the Spirit by Robert Farris ThompsonISBN: 0394723694
Date: 1984
This landmark book shows how five African civilizations--Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River--have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of Black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the New World.