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A Leopard Lives in a Muu Tree is a poem by the Kenyan poet Jonathan Kariara. It concerns a native farmer besieged by a tree-bound leopard that has apparently broken his fences torn his medicine bags and stifled his wives’ sensuality. Featured in such poesy anthologies as An Introduction to East African Poetry The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry and Over This Soil it has been subjected to a wide range of interpretations most of them erotic.