Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria explores how the sacred plays itself out in contemporary Africa. It offers a creative analysis of the logics and dynamics of the sacred understood as the constellation of impossibility available to a given community in religion politics epistemology economic development and reactionary violence. Using the tools of philosophy postcolonial criticism political theory African studies religious studies and cultural studies Wariboko reveals the intricate connections between the sacred and the existential conditions that characterize disorder terror trauma despair and hope in the postcolonial Africa.The sacred Wariboko argues is not about religion or divinity but the set of possibilities opened to a people or denied them the sum total of possibilities conceivable given their level of social technological and economic development.