A treatise by Nelson Tebbe entitled, Witchcraft and Statecraft: Liberal Democracy in Africa identifies demands for greater legal accommodation of African traditions in South Africa as direct ...

Dementia is an "escalating challenge" in Africa, according to a study published ... Accusing someone of witchcraft is illegal in the country, punishable by up to two years in prison, but the ...

A group, the Advocacy for Alleged Witches (AFAW), has petitioned Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State over the lynching of an ...

I returned from Yola, Adamawa State, where I attended a roundtable discussion on witchcraft hunts in the 21st century .

Greetings and salutations from the Advocacy for Alleged Witches and from all advocates against witch hunts in Nigeria and ...

Massachusetts first began issuing pardons to Salem “ witches ” in 1703 and continued to do so until July 2022, when the latest person accused of witchcraft was pardoned. Connecticut has also issued ...

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 ...

Interview: Zambian Sister Vickness Muleya, member of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa, leads ...

It tells the story of an eight-year-old Zambian girl accused of being a witch. It will be a highlight of the fifth Wales Africa Film Festival, with screenings in Bangor and Cardiff. Ghana's camps ...