Burundi: French Man Mistaken for a Cannibal · Global Voices
Jennifer Brea

Bien Au Bout… shares the strange story of children who fled their schools en masse fearing they might be eaten [Fr] by a white man seen wandering in the forests outside their villages.  Local rumor had it that Patrice Faye, a French naturalist and collector of endangered snakes with 30 years’ experience in Burundi, was a cannibal.