Witchcraft Accusations and Freethought in Ghana

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• dennis awah 12 years ago

  Igwe, a good attempt at explaining the situation in Africa but you are not brave enough to point out the real creators of this witchcraft plague. Ask yourself this important question "if you acknowledge that witches are figme ...
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  Igwe, a good attempt at explaining the situation in Africa but you are not brave enough to point out the real creators of this witchcraft plague. Ask yourself this important question "if you acknowledge that witches are figments of mans imagination then who are all the witches Christian pastors, priests, prophets etc have been healing, converting, redeeming, saving over the years to proclaim the power of their roman god???? you have not been fair to our traditional religions by placing the blame entirely on their feet. In your last paragraph you claim you believe that if Africans "begin to cast doubt or disbelieve in the existence of their numerous gods' "until they begin to question.......their soothsayer and priests who front and play god" etc is a really an unjust attack on our indigenous cultures but you do not propose an alternative?? so if we question and reject our traditional cultures and gods who do we then worship??? A Roman Christian god whose disciples claim to purge those same witches and wizards you believe our local traditions have created and are the reason for the problem in the first place. you are being unfair and I don't think you completely understand the subject you claim you have researched, for if witches and their craft are really man craft how come Christianity is also making us believe it is real. why cannot we question this roman ideology????? After all Ghana is largely Christian and Muslim, traditional religion is not the dominant religious practice.
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• AFRICABI 12 years ago

  Charismatic pastors have done more in fortifing this belief in superstition than any traditional priest. The have made the belief in witches legit. they are the ones to blame.

  Charismatic pastors have done more in fortifing this belief in superstition than any traditional priest. The have made the belief in witches legit. they are the ones to blame.

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