AFRICAMmoatia: Ghana’s Backward-Footed Akan Forest Dwarfs
Hunters in Ghana's Akan-speaking forests are warned to watch the ground for footprints that point the wrong way. Whoever...
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AFRICATouni Minwi: Mauritius’s 1994 Werewolf Panic
Touni Minwi doesn't lurk in shadows and wait. He greases his own skin with oil, climbs onto a roof, and drops down into ...
AFRICAThe Headless Lady of Frégate Island, Seychelles
The headless lady of Frégate Island is a ghost said to walk the shoreline of a tiny private island in the Seychelles at ...
AFRICAEbigane: Gabon’s Shapeshifting Bat-Buffalo Vampire
In the epic songs of the Fang people of Gabon, Cameroon, and Equatorial Guinea, an ebigane (also spelled ébigane) is not...
AFRICAChipekwe: Zambia’s Unverified One-Horned Lake Monster
Fishermen on Lake Bangweulu in Zambia used to talk about something in the water that hippos would not go near. They call...
AFRICARamanenjana: Madagascar’s 1863 Spirit Dance Epidemic
In February 1863, in the hill country south of Madagascar's capital, people began dancing and could not stop. Within wee...
AFRICAThe Ghost of Uniondale: South Africa’s Vanishing Hitchhiker
She wears a blue blouse and a black coat, and she is always going the same direction: toward Uniondale, on the road she ...
EgyptEl Naddaha: The Nile’s “Caller” Who Lures Victims by Name
Fishermen on the Nile Delta have a rule that outsiders rarely hear about: if a voice calls your name from the water afte...
AFRICABest Books on African Anti-Colonial Resistance History
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AFRICAMabiala Ma Nganga: The Healer Who Held Off an Empire
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