People are far more aggressive towards baboons than the other way round. Analysis suggests that the rage is not really just about baboons, but about society’s anxiety more generally, with baboons ...

Encounters between baboons and people are common in parts of South Africa. WhatsApp groups often share stories of baboons raiding a kitchen and stealing all the food. And stories appear in the media ...

Gris-gris are rooted in traditional African faiths that believe vital powers in animals and nature may be unlocked — to harm, ...

The rupture in the shared deep history of the baboon–human relationship came with the shift from hunter-gatherer lifeways to ...

As many Africans sour on the West, a new generation of military officers are seizing power, vowing to build strong and ...

Witches and witch trials remain a source of enduring curiosity. Julie Stone Peters, H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature, has written a book that approaches them in a ...

Specifically, the Court mandated revisions to the Witchcraft Act of 1928 ... to End Attacks and Other Human Rights Violations Targeting Persons with Albinism in Africa (2021-2031), a ten-year ...

Five men have been sentenced to death by hanging in Nigeria's Kano state for the 2023 murder of a woman they accused of witchcraft. The convicted men attacked Dahare Abubakar, 67, as she was ...

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