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In Uganda, I wrote a questionaire that I had my research assistants give; on it, I asked about the embalasassa, a speckled lizard said to be poisonous and to have been sent by Prime minsister Milton Obote to kill Baganda in the late 1960s. It is not poisonous and was no more common in the 1960s than it had been in previous decades, as Makerere University science professors announced on the radio and stated in print… I wrote the question, What is the difference between basimamoto and embalasassa?
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― Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (Studies on the History of Society and Culture)
― Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (Studies on the History of Society and Culture)
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Death is more just than anything else in the world: no one can escape it. The earth takes everyone- the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no justice on earth.
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