When exactly in Africa a person was first deprived of his penis by magic, no one knows for sure. One of the first cases was recorded several years ago by psychiatrist Sunday Ilechukwu in his letter to the Transcultural Psychiatric Review. In 1975, Ilechukwu was working in northern Nigeria, in Kaduna. One day, a policeman brought two men to his office and asked for a medical examination: one of them accused the other of the disappearance of his penis. This led to serious riots in the street.

American journalist Frank Burse went to Africa in search of penis thieves, who have become one of the continent's main threats in recent years. Translation by Irina Kaliteevskaya. Anton Kannemeyer / Courtesy of Michael Stevenson. When exactly in Africa a person was first deprived of his penis by magic, no one knows for sure. One of the first cases was recorded several years ago by psychiatrist Sunday Ilechukwu in his letter to the Transcultural Psychiatric Review.

Photographer, died on January 23, 2004 at the age of 83 in Los Angeles My father told me that I would end my life in the bottom because I only think about girls and photographs. On my twelfth birthday, my father gave me my first camera - and I took my first seven photographs, on the subway. There was nothing visible on them at all. I took the eighth photo at the radio tower. The world is completely different when you look at it through the viewfinder.