“'The beast of the night', 'the black death', 'the stalker', 'the nightmare' ... there are as many nicknames for the mwuaji as there are colonists in Africa. At dusk, they go on the hunt, lurk in the shadow and slay all those foolish enough to wander away from the light. It is said that they are possessed by the spirit of the ancestors that have returned to take revenge for the foreign occupation of Africa."
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