Cannibalism Myths, Empire, and Identity in Colonial Sierra Leone

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Cannibalism Myths, Empire, and Identity in Colonial Sierra Leone is written by Katrina HB Keefer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1666965790 (ISBN 10) and 9781666965797 (ISBN 13).

Through careful analysis of court transcripts and modern scholarship on the 1913 Human Leopard cases in Sierra Leone, this book uncovers a complex web of judicial overreach, colonial ambitions, indigenous belief systems, European paranoia, animals whose habitat was being encroached upon, and socio-political turmoil.