Magical Interpretations, Material Realities : Modernity, Witchcraft, and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa

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Summary

This volume sets out recent thinking on withccraft in Africa, paying particular attention to variations in meanings and practices.

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Magical interpretations and material realities: an introduction
Delusions of development and the enrichment of witchcraft discourses in Cameroon
Cannibal transformations: colonialism and commodification in the Sierra Leone hinterland
Vulture men, campus cultists and teenaged witches: modern magics in Nigerian popular media
Witchcraft and scepticism by proxy: Pentecostalism and laughter in urban
Black market, free market: anti-witchcraft shrines and fetishes among the
Betrayal or affirmation? Transformations in witchcraft technologies of power, danger and agency among the Tuareg of
Save our skins: structural adjustment, morality and the occult in Tanzania
Witchcraft in the new South Africa: from colonial superstition to postcolonial Reality?
On living in a world with witches: everyday epistemology and spiritual insecurity in a modern African city (Soweto)
Witchcraft, development and paranoia in Cameroon: interactions between popular, academic and State discourse
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