Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa Volume 37

by Luise White

Book Overview

During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. In colonial Tanganyika, for example, Africans were said to be captured by these agents of colonialism and hung upside down, their throats cut so their blood drained into huge buckets. In Kampala, the police were said to abduct Africans and keep them in pits, where their blood was sucked...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520217047
• ISBN13: 9780520217041
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"