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Author Pratten, David

Title The Man-Leopard Murder Mysteries : History and Society in Colonial Nigeria
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (438 pages)
Series International African Library
International African library.
Contents Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Of Leopards and Leaders; Chapter 3 Resistance and Revival; Chapter 4 Progressives and Power; Chapter 5 War and Public; Chapter 6 Inlaws and Outlaws; Chapter 7 Divinations and Delegations; Chapter 8 The Politics of Improvement; Chapter 9 Echoes of Ekpe Owo; Notes; References; Index
Summary This book 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 south-eastern Nigeria attributed to the 'man-leopard society'. These murder mysteries, reported as the 'biggest, strangest murder hunt in the world', were not just forensic but also related to the broad historical impact of commercial, Christian and colonial aid relations on Annang society
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Subject Anang (African people) -- Nigeria, Southern
Murder -- Investigation -- Nigeria, Southern
Anang (African people)
Murder -- Investigation
Social conditions
SUBJECT Nigeria -- History -- 1900-1960. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091867
Nigeria, Southern -- Social conditions
Subject Nigeria
Southern Nigeria
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780748631001
0748631003