Al-Zubayr described southern Sudanese tribes as cannibals trading human meat.

Evidence

The customs of some of these tribes did not disappoint the expectations of wild adventure anticipated by the young al- Zubayr. As he related, the tribe he knew as the Nyam Nyam had no organized religion; one individual would worship a tree, another a chicken or a snake. Even worse, they were cannibals and traded the bodies of those they had killed in the markets, where the meat was sold like beef. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 563

Categorization

• CANDY: A striking, anecdote-ready detail about how colonial-era Sudanese elites described southern tribes.