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 ...

"Witchcraft" and mysterious occult beliefs have been blamed for the surge in attacks targeting albinos in Africa over the last decade, but a UN expert said those theories leave a lot unexplained.

Reviewed by Charlotte Touati in Aethiopica: international journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean studies (Wiesbaden, Germany) 17, 2014, pages 296-298 (DT381.A47 AFA). Reviewed by David Kofi Amponsah in ...

An 81-year-old woman was brutally beaten by her neighbours in Uganda, who accused her of witchcraft and blamed her for a prolonged drought. Ayder Kanyomushana, a stooped octogenarian, became the ...

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 ...

Items used in witchcraft rituals in Uganda. (Credit: Stock image.) Listen YAOUNDE, Cameroon – Amid a recent controversy in Nigeria over a university-sponsored examination of witchcraft opposed by some ...

Here is something you don't hear about every day....we hope. According to The Mirror, the Rwanda Football Federation has taken steps to end witchcraft during soccer matches. If any coach is found ...