ISSA KANU was in the wrong place at the wrong time. On 23 April, Kanu showed up in his taxi at the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in the forests outside Freetown, Sierra Leone, with three US construction workers. They wanted to see some chimps, but got more than they bargained for. A frenzied attack by an angry mob of animals left Kanu dead and the three Americans badly bitten.
The chimps responsible for this horrific attack had just escaped from an enclosure, and while the incident was unusual it was not unprecedented. In March 2005, two chimps escaped from their cage…
