Witchcraft as a distinct religion is alien to the African continent, but the idea of witchcraft as a crime is not. The two narratives are distinct and should not be mixed. Witchcraft as practised ...

In this piece, I argue that witchcraft is a myth ravaging the lives of many Africans; and witch-hunting needs an urgent pan-African response. Drawing from the cases and activities of the Advocacy for ...

Limited public health services and health education "increase the prevalence of accusations of witchcraft and ritual attacks", according to guidance by the African Union. Conditions such as autism ...

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which is the accepted punishment for witches in East Africa. For this the white man’s government was demanding their death. Sixty Chicago policemen sentenced to death for shooting a racketeer ...

A South African man hopped on TikTok to shared his trauma of witnessing his mother being labelled as the village witch after ...

and many are "persecuted and even killed in organized witch hunts," DW said. These hunts are most prominent in African countries but are also common in parts of Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

From summer to autumn in sub-Saharan Africa, green fields of rice ... These eye-catching flowers are known as ‘witch weeds,’ as they survive and spread by parasitizing the roots of other ...

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