Although Mombasa is on the east coast of Africa the film depicts the Leopard cult. The Leopard Society, leopard men, or Anyoto was a secret society that operated in West Africa, not east approximately between 1890 and 1935.[1][2] It was believed that members of the society could transform into leopards through the use of witchcraft.[3] The earliest reference to the society in western literature can be found in George Banbury's "Sierra Leone: or the white man's grave" (1888).[3]
Blow guns and darts were used in east Asia and South America but there is no evidence of their use in Africa.
There was a strong influence of American and Latin American music in Ethiopia during the timeframe of this picture, perhaps not so much in Kenya. The music in the nightclub scene seems to be strongly Caribbean in character.
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