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 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 ...

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

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

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

Four villagers, including a father and his son, received a combined 135 years in prison for lynching four elderly women ...

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

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 ...

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 ...