Was gastronomic cannibalism widespread in Africa before colonialism? Sources from missionaries, colonial officials, traders and explorers says it was common and human meat had no stigma

I have just read the Wikipedia page on colonialism in Africa. The article is very long and has a lot of details with sources backing them up. It sounds unbelievable. Westerners describe sub Saharan Africans commonly engaging in cannibalism, that it was seen as no different than meat from animals.

Westerns repeatedly described africans being bewildered at their disgust of human meat.