Enchanted Geography: India in the West African Popular Imagination

Enchanted Geography is a book project that explores the cultural history of how Ghanaians and Nigerians came to construct India as a repository of the most powerful magic, deities, and spirits. The book further examines how the idea of India is summoned in everyday secular and religious spaces. Amponsah shows that, in tandem with a nexus of historical factors, this view of India is the product of a common West African indigenous worldview that privileges geographical distance in the search for potent spiritual resources.