Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Murder: Akua Denteh of Ghana

witches=fear for most people. there are exceptions, but that's the broad rule, i'd bet.

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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The other side of the matter is that some people believe that they are witches and want to live unmolested. I once attended a pan-African conference in Yaounde which featured witches from various parts of Africa proudly clutching their flight brooms. It was such a creepy thing to have a witch sitting beside you to make you dream of flying alongside in the night! But to kill that aviator, No! That's terrible murder. 

-- Obododimma. 

n Sunday, August 2, 2020, Obododimma Oha <obodooha@gmail.com> wrote:

The other side of the matter is that some people believe that they are witches and want to live unmolested. I once attended an pan-African conference in Yaounde which featured witches from various parts of Africa proudly clutching their flight brooms. It was such a creepy thing to have a witch sitting beside you to make you dream of flying alongside in the night! But to kill that aviator, No! That's terrible murder. 

--Obododimma. 

On Sunday, August 2, 2020, Okey Iheduru <okeyiheduru@gmail.com> wrote:

If you want to stop the phenomenal rise in witch-finding, witch-killing, and belief in witches, you must first abolish Pentecostal churches--at least, most of them! There is an inverse relationship between the exponential growth in these churches and ever-pervasive belief in witchcraft, unfortunately among educated people in Ghana and Africa in general. After all, the Pentecostal church--which increasingly targets this population -- exists to claim the land for God and save the members from the devil and all occult forces. Well, that's after taking care of the theology of growth and late capitalism interests of the founder-pastors. If you eliminate witches and occult forces, these churches will wither away, just as "underdevelopment" is unlikely to end as long as you have the development industry or mercy-industrial complex.

On Sun, Aug 2, 2020, 6:55 AM Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

Akua Denteh: Last 'witch' to be murdered in Ghana?


https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/Akua-Denteh-Last-witch-to-be-murdered-in-Ghana-1023577

 

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