The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria

by David Pratten and Professor David Pratten

The Man-Leopard Murders is an account of murder and politics in Africa and an historical ethnography of southern Annang communities during the colonial period. Its narrative leads to events between 1945 and 1948 when the imperial gaze of police, press, and politicians was focused on a series of mysterious deaths in southeastern Nigeria attributed to the "man-leopard society." These murder mysteries, reported as the "biggest, strangest murder hunt...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253349567
• ISBN13: 9780253349569
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 425 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"