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witchcraft – TalkAfrique http://www.talkafrique.com Connecting To Advance Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:36:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://www.talkafrique.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ta_logo22-150x92.jpg witchcraft – TalkAfrique http://www.talkafrique.com 32 32 Uganda/Africa: In the Land of Human Sacrifice http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/ugandaafrica-in-the-land-of-human-sacrifice Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:49:43 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=10203 Comments: Essay In and out of Kampala, Uganda’s capital, the City, supposed to radiate enlightenment to some of Uganda’s dark ancient cultural practices, has failed to do so. The City is entrapped in obscurity. “The villages and farming communities that surround Uganda’s capital, Kampala, are gripped by fear.” Human sacrifices, the BBC World TV reports, …

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]]> Ghana Government Looking at Ways to Reintegrate the Nation’s ‘Witches’ http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/ghana-government-to-reintegrate-ghana-witches Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:27:42 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=10090 Accra — Ghana’s government is looking at ways to support people accused of witchcraft – mainly women and children banished by their communities to “witches’ camps” in the north – and to reintegrate them in their home villages. Currently around 1,000 women and 700 children are living in six camps in northern Ghana, where they …

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]]> Harmonizing the Unrealistic Education System http://www.talkafrique.com/science-and-technology/harmonizing-the-unrealistic-education-system http://www.talkafrique.com/science-and-technology/harmonizing-the-unrealistic-education-system#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:26:07 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=9999 Commentary/Ghana/Africa Education The mass failure of Junior High School students at this year’s national examination, a worsening trend over the past couple of years, has sent educationists, parents, the mass media and Accra scrambling for answers. Is it the quality of teachers? Is it lack of educational material? Is it the environment? Is it the …

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/science-and-technology/harmonizing-the-unrealistic-education-system/feed 1 In The name Of Jesus: Child Witches in Central Africa http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/in-the-name-of-jesus-child-witches-in-central-africa Mon, 30 May 2011 20:16:23 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=8938 Fortunately, there is a cure for ignorance. It’s for simply those who know to speak out. [youtube]MlRG9gXriVI[/youtube]

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]]> Chromosome-Dependent Justice: The Pervasiveness of ‘Legal’ Violence Against African Women http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/chromosome-dependent-justice-the-pervasiveness-of-legal-violence-african-women http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/chromosome-dependent-justice-the-pervasiveness-of-legal-violence-african-women#comments Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:01:55 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=8229 When a person’s chromosomes determine how the law is applied to him or her in our time, Martin Luther King would probably not complain if the color of a person’s skin does the same.

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/chromosome-dependent-justice-the-pervasiveness-of-legal-violence-african-women/feed 3 Tanzanian Man Kills Wife to Sell Body Parts http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/tanzanian-man-kills-wife-to-sell-body-parts http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/tanzanian-man-kills-wife-to-sell-body-parts#comments Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:08:15 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=7931 A Tanzanian man has been arrested by police for purportedly trying to sell his wife’s body parts including her head, breasts and genitals. The man is said to have confessed during interrogation by police on Saturday. The suspect confessed to killing his wife after he heard that human body parts were in demand in Shinyanga …

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/tanzanian-man-kills-wife-to-sell-body-parts/feed 1 A young female is unsuccessful without a man in Nigeria? http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/a-young-female-is-unsuccessful-without-a-man-in-nigeria http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/a-young-female-is-unsuccessful-without-a-man-in-nigeria#comments Mon, 27 Dec 2010 22:13:45 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=5033 [ad#GBAF-1-text] Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “…I am infuriated by the assumption that to be youngish and female means you are unable to earn your own living without a man” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A humid night two years ago, sitting beside a male friend in his car, and I roll down my window to tip a …

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/a-young-female-is-unsuccessful-without-a-man-in-nigeria/feed 5 Nollywood stars seek spiritual power to stay hot http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/nollywood-stars-besiege-spiritualists-for-power-to-stay-hot http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/nollywood-stars-besiege-spiritualists-for-power-to-stay-hot#comments Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:26:00 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=4534 Does spiritualism have anything to do with being commercially successful? While this is a puzzle that would take religious experts and traditionalists a while to analyze, feelers from the nation’s movie industry indicate that it is fast becoming the fad, pretty much like the home video scenes are depicting. Startling is the revelation that the …

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/nollywood-stars-besiege-spiritualists-for-power-to-stay-hot/feed 1 Ghana “Witch” Killing Points to a Broader Culture of Fear and Superstition http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/ghana-witch-killing-points-to-a-broader-culture-of-fear-and-superstition http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/ghana-witch-killing-points-to-a-broader-culture-of-fear-and-superstition#comments Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:46:32 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=4160 The brutal murder of a 72-year-old woman who was suspected of witchcraft in Ghana has been met with public outrage after a photograph showing her in a near naked state appeared on the front page of the nation's most popular newspaper, the Daily Graphic, last week.

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/ghana-witch-killing-points-to-a-broader-culture-of-fear-and-superstition/feed 2 Shame, Shame Shame!! http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/witch-woman-burnt-ghana-shame-shame http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/witch-woman-burnt-ghana-shame-shame#comments Sat, 27 Nov 2010 02:31:06 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=3938 I read with utter shock that a 72-year-old woman accused of being a witch has been burned to death in Tema, Ghana. What frustrates me most is that one of the culprits is believed to be a pastor. This man is a disgrace to the church. I call upon true Christians to condemn so-called ‘ministers’ …

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