White Monk of Timbuctoo 1934

by William B. Seabrook

1934. Because he would not write his own life story, the author presents this biography on the White Monk of Timbuctoo. The legendary White Monk of Timbuctoo, also known as Yakouba, was a renegade monk and renegade priest in the technical sense in that he unfrocked himself many years ago. He was an intriguing individual, married a black woman and begot thirty children. The author states that Yakouba was the only white man he knew that was happy, good and free. Yakouba presented the author with his notes, unpublished pages, sketches, ancient photographs and other information, they discussed and augmented the material, and it is found within this volume.

316 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1934

About the author

William Buehler Seabrook was a journalist and explorer whose interest in the occult lead him across the globe where he studied magic rituals, trained as a witch doctor, and famously ate human flesh, likening it to veal. Despite his studious accounts of magical practices, he insisted he had never seen anything which could not be explained rationally.

His book on witchcraft is notable for its thoughtful focus on arch-occultist Aleister Crowley, who stayed at Seabrook's home for a short time.