“Dor Bui” [“Escremento dell’uomo bianco”] Prime note intorno allo status degli albini nel diritto tradizionale africano

In traditional sub-Saharan African law and culture, albinos are considered negative creatures for the community, creatures fl oating between nature and supra-nature, similar to witches. In regard to the albino “minority”, African culture came to be modifi ed between precolonial age, colonial age and age of independence, especially in the confrontation between white-colonizers and albinos. Between fear, control, discipline and bloody suppression, even today- (and perhaps more than in pre-colonial centuries) the status of albinos in Africa is very critical.