Contemporary Witch-hunting in Gusii, Southwestern Kenya

Contemporary Witch-hunting in Gusii, Southwestern Kenya
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Download or read book Contemporary Witch-hunting in Gusii, Southwestern Kenya written by Justus Mozart H'Achachi Ogembo and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes a series of witch-killings that has been underway in Gusii, Southwestern Kenya, since 1992. It integrates the testimony of participants of and witnesses to the incidents of witch-killing with other ethnographic and socioeconomic information in order to understand what led to the sudden rise of this violence in November 1992 and its rapid decline in July 1994.


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