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This study suggests that the balance in Africa, between the prevalence of witchcraft and the forces of modernity, stems both from obsession with power and from the increasing feeling of powerlessness among the people. It also gives a parallel with aspects of politics in Western democracies.

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The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa 1997, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville

ISBN-13: 9780813917023

Hardcover