In some rural areas of East Africa, such as southern Tanzania, parts of Mozambique and Malawi, so-called ‘spirit lions’ - man-eaters, man-eating lions - are making a name for themselves. One such area is the Nkhotakota Game Reserve in Malawi, which has been almost emptied by poachers. In a hopelessly unsuitable hire car, the author and a friend cross the long deserted reserve on their way to Lake Malawi - unaware of what awaits them there. The authentic story tells of this journey through the ghostly forest, which gradually turns into a horror trip. Illustrated eBook with numerous photos and maps.



Kai Althoetmar, born in Cologne (Germany) in 1968, a graduate of the Cologne School of Journalism and a graduate economist and political scientist, previously worked for GEO magazine, Deutsche Welle (Middle East editorial office) and Reuters news agency (foreign department), among others, and lives as a full-time writer in the German Eifel and on Mauritius. In Namibia, he worked as a reporter for the German-language radio programme of the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC).



In the ghost forest of Nkhotakota. The true story of an adventurous odyssey through a Malawi game reserve infested by maneater lions.