Two men in Zambia are accused of practicing witchcraft and possessing charms intended to harm the country's president. The trial has become a source of fascination in the southern African nation which ...

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 ...

Two men in Zambia are accused of practicing witchcraft and possessing charms intended to harm the country's president. The trial has become a source of fascination in the southern African nation ...

The interest reflects a belief in forms of magic and supernatural phenomena that remains in parts of southern Africa — and some irritation at a colonial-era law that brands it witchcraft and ...

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 ...

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 ...

1993. Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories. Berkeley: University of California Press. Badoe, Yaba. 2005. “What it means to be a witch in the Northern Region of Ghana.” The Mapping Sexualities ...

As we mark Commonwealth Day 2025, the Advocacy for Alleged Witches protests witch hunts and ritual attacks in Commonwealth ...