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Susanne Wenger: artista e sacerdotessa, by Paola Caboara Luzzatto. Firenze: Atheneum, 2010?. 181 pp. ISBN 978-88-7255-358-9. [Text in Italian and English]. Euro 15,20.
This is the story of the remarkable Austrian born artist and Yoruba cult priestess, Susanne Wenger (1915-2009), presented by her friend Paola Caboara Luzzatto, an art therapist with a doctorate in comparative religion, and herself a resident in Nigeria for ten years. Wenger settled in Nigeria in 1949 and spent most of her life in the small town of Oshogbo, where the sacred groves are now a Unesco World Heritage site.
The book is presented as Wenger's life story as she told it and reflected on it with Luzzatto in the...