NAIROBI: On January 1, 1804, Haiti became the world’s first black post-colonial nation to declare independence and the only nation to do so by successful slave rebellion. The French Catholics, ...
MBALE, Uganda (AP) — Wilson Watira offered his hand when he met his political rival at a funeral, gesturing for a proper handshake. The man didn't want contact, instead folding a piece of paper that ...
Introduction: exploring witchcraft, power and politics -- Society, cosmology and the making of witchcraft: continuity and change in the history of Green Valley, 1864-1995 -- Witches of the Lowveld and ...
Like dogs whipped for something they did not understand, 60 kinky-haired Wakamba tribesmen huddled on the floor of the Nairobi Railway Institute fortnight ago and gazed hopefully at the judge sitting ...
This is a comparative ethnographic study of witchcraft and associated violence between the kingdoms of Kom and Venda in Cameroon and South Africa respectively. The book shows why despite its ...