Five men have been sentenced to death by hanging in Nigeria's Kano state for the 2023 murder of a woman they accused of ...

A former Pedi witch came clean to Mzansi about how she was able to cast spells and manipulate people by using muti. Her show and tell gagged many on TikTok.

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.

An Eastern Cape traditional leader who was filmed beating two women in Elliotdale last week has been remanded in custody ...

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 ...

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

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 ...