Africans living with dementia are often accused of witchcraft, with potentially ... that [traditional care]," a social worker from South Africa-based organisation Dementia SA told the magazine.

A group, the Advocacy for Alleged Witches (AFAW), has petitioned Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State over the lynching of an ...

A treatise by Nelson Tebbe entitled, Witchcraft and Statecraft: Liberal Democracy in Africa identifies demands for greater legal accommodation of African traditions in South Africa as direct ...

I returned from Yola, Adamawa State, where I attended a roundtable discussion on witchcraft hunts in the 21st century .

Many people in the southern African country believe in - and live in fear of - witchcraft. The police said Mr Candunde and Mr Phiri were hired by Nelson Banda, the younger brother of MP Emmanuel ...

Two “witch doctors” were recently arrested in Zambia for attempting to bewitch the African nation’s president, Hakainde Hichilema. They have been charged under Zambia’s Witchcraft Act with ...

From summer to autumn in sub-Saharan Africa, green fields of rice ... These eye-catching flowers are known as ‘witch weeds,’ as they survive and spread by parasitizing the roots of other ...

It tells the story of an eight-year-old Zambian girl accused of being a witch. It will be a highlight of the fifth Wales Africa Film Festival, with screenings in Bangor and Cardiff. Ghana's camps ...