Witch-Doctors

At dawn on Lake Victoria, a flag rises above Ingonya as a chain of captives clanks onto the parade ground. In the commandant’s office, a witch-doctor sits silent while Hermann von Schnitzler und zu Pfeiffer considers how to conquer his country without firing a shot.

At this remote colonial station, the German officer has his eye on Wongolo territory, far across the lake. Rather than spend soldiers’ lives in a costly campaign, he means to turn the people’s own spiritual and political rivalries to his advantage. His intelligence leads him to Sakamata, a once-powerful witch-doctor who has fallen from favor—and to a contest of influence in which belief may prove more potent than artillery. But what can a disgraced priest offer a conqueror, and what will his plan unleash?

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