GRAND RAPIDS, MI --Nigerian human rights activist Leo Igwe brought detailed accounts of African witch trials -- a lecture entitled "A Debate of the Heart" -- to the Center for Inquiry-Michigan's event ...

According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), accusations of child witchcraft are on the rise in several African countries — with horrifying consequences. Reportedly, kids who are branded ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

For many Westerners, “witchcraft” may seem a “benign form of New Age spirituality,” said John L. Allen in the U.S.’s National Catholic Reporter. The chaplain’s handbook for the U.S. military even ...

Possibly the year’s most audacious film debut, “I Am Not A Witch” has won numerous awards, including Britain’s BAFTA for best first feature, and to see it is to understand why. Written and directed by ...

War Witch, the story of a child soldier in Africa, was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Oscar and it won tons of film festival prizes all over the world. The real-life story of actress Rachel ...