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During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumours 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. This text presents and interprets vampire stories from East and Central Africa as a way of understanding the world as the storytellers did. Using gossip and rumour as historical sources in their own right, it assesses the place of such evidence, oral and written, in historical reconstruction

Afrique de l'Est --- --Afrique centrale --- --Vampire --- --Vampirisme --- --Folklore --- --Influence coloniale --- --Sang --- --Vampires --- Folklore --- Blood --- Colonisation --- --Culture conflict. --- Storytelling --- Folklore. --- Africa, Central --- -Colonial influence --- Vampire --- Vampirisme --- Influence coloniale --- Sang --- Vampires --- Culture conflict. --- Afrique centrale --- -Blood --- Africa, East --- Colonial influence. --- Afrique orientale anglophone