LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Two men are on trial in Zambia on charges of practicing witchcraft and possessing charms intended to harm the country's president, in a case that has become a source of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

What is science? I put it to Ken Ouko that a lot of what we call witchcraft is largely scientific. African scholars have failed us when it comes to the subject of witchcraft, by taking refuge in ...

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 ...

Encounters between baboons and people are common in parts of South Africa. WhatsApp groups often ... who acts both independently and as a kind of witch’s familiar). We need to ask why it ...

Berkeley: University of California Press. Badoe, Yaba. 2005. “What it means to be a witch in the Northern Region of Ghana.” The Mapping Sexualities Project, Institute of African Studies and African ...

Two suspected witch doctors appeared Tuesday in a Zambian court on charges they attempted to "bewitch" President Hakainde Hichilema. Leonard Phiri, 43, a Zambian, and Jasten Mabulesse Candunde ...