Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Degree in Magic

Witchcraft is evil by connotation to a western, christian, scientific epistemology; not to most of us in the humanities who understand and reject that reading of the term. I am thinking of maybe the most significant scholar on the topic, peter geschiere, whose works, and whose field, rises above the negativity. 

I want to add that the last section of my last book, African Cinema in a Global Age, dealt largely with the elderly—with old people. Many many of the elderly were unjustly accused of witchcraft, sometime so that they might be stripped of their lands or goods, that would devolve onto their children. We all know of famous films dealing with that topic, like The Witches of Gambaga. In my section i saw these tragic figures presented often as victims but also heroic. 

I used the term trash in an earlier book so as to reverse the prejudices against african culture and film. The term witchcraft could be used in a similar manner, defiantly; not in submission to an outsider's prejudices, not in submission to a religious program that damns traditional african religious beliefs.

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There is need to make program offerings contemporary and timeless, so kudos to Exeter. I'd like to know if they have a focus on Repaircraft which is my positive coined matching term for the near opposite of witchcraft, which is typically evil by connotation. 

On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 5:58 PM Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

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