I have read this book and the quote in pic is fake. I read the 1958 edition.
Here are some of his stories from his book.
>In the 19th century, white traders used to sell cans of corned beef to the blacks. After doing this for several years, they learned that the blacks believed that the cans contained human meat. The blacks were not troubled by this belief because they were cannibals. They continued purchasing the cans of corned beef and consuming the contents even though they thought the meat was the flesh of dead slaves. p25
>Some blacks were sold into slavery by their own tribes for the crime of using magic to cause the misfortunes of others.
>Some blacks sold their own children into slavery in the hope that they would be taken to a white man country and given three meals a day (so great was the poverty in central Africa before the arrival of whites).
>The author encountered a case in which a slave, who was prone to criminality, refused the gift of freedom, because he knew that if he remained in slavery he could commit crimes with impunity and that his owner would have to pay the fines on his behalf. p33
>There were several other cases of voluntary slavery for various reasons. p32
>In the early days a white trader gave the blacks a written note with a list of supplies he required and instructed them to take it to a trade station that he had a contract with. The white man at the trade station read the note and then gave them the supplies. The blacks were amazed and thought that the writing was a magical incantation and demanded to be taught how to write so that they too could trick the trade station into giving them free stuff.
>At one point a white trader showed the natives a gramophone and the blacks turned on him and he had to flee for his life. Later the whites learned that when the blacks believed that the white men had imprisoned the spirits of their ancestors inside the box using magic.
>Some black women possessed a taboo that if their first child was a boy, then either they or the child must die. Schweitzer witnessed a case in which a woman with this taboo had a boy and then starved herself to death. In a separate incident, he saw a woman with this taboo give her boy a girl's name in order to trick the evil juju spirits. p59,65
>At one point a missionary in a missionary school got angry at a black kid and said in anger "you will always have a bad character". The black kid believed that the missionary had placed him under a curse. Years later the black sought out the white missionary and told him that the curse he had placed him under had made him an unhappy man.
>A young black desired to become a steam boat captain. Instead of signing on as a sailor on a steam boat and learning the craft, he decided to become a steam boat captain using magic. A juju witch doctor agreed to make him a magical fetish (i.e. idol) that would make him a steam boat captain but the juju ceremony required him to offer his own mother as a human sacrifice. The juju witch doctor then added that if he didn't follow through with the sacrifice then he himself must die. The man couldn't bare to kill his own mother so he killed himself instead.
>Before the arrival of whites, the blacks believed that the birth of twins was an evil omen and it was customary in several tribes to kill them shortly after childbirth. In the early twentieth century, blacks believed that twins shared a common personality and if one got sick it was the other who should receive medical treatment. Schweitzer witnessed a case in which a black boy died of malaria because the boy's mother had given the quinine prescribed to her to his twin brother instead.
>Some blacks believed that there were no natural causes of death or disease. Rather, they believed that all death and all disease were caused by juju magic. Consequently, whenever someone got sick or died they would ask a witch doctor to identify the magician and then seek revenge on them.
