Witchcraft

Ruona Agbroko Meyer: Don’t blame family witchcraft: It’s your call (30 Days, 30 Voices)

by Ruona Agbroko Meyer It is 2008. I am in the Microbiology department of the University of Lagos, Nigeria shaking a blackened test tube over a Bunsen burner. A classmate waves. I shift the wooden tongs to my less-used right hand, and hug her. We make small talk. It turns out Damilare is here to write... Read More

Financial Times, NEXT, nigeria, Student, UNILAG, willpower, Witchcraft

March 3, 2012

#InCaseYouMissedIt: “Knives, sticks and a hammer” – Woman attacks brother during “deliverance”

by Lekan Olanrewaju A Europe based Congolese couple have been found guilty of the barbaric murder of a 15-year-old boy who they believed was a witch. Magalie Bamu and her partner Erik Bikubi, subjected her younger brother Kristy to four days of brutal torture in which he was reportedly attacked with knives, sticks, metal bars, and a hammer... Read More

Deliverance, Murder, Witchcraft

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