Is there such a thing as “good witchcraft”? Witchcraft discourse now plays an important role in the understanding of modernity and the progress that some have made in a technologically sophisticated world (Cf. Opoku Onyinah, Pentecostal Exorcism, p. 4). In an early 1970s highlife hit a popular Ghanaian musician sang that “white witchcraft” is good…

In the understanding of Lugbara people, children can become witches if they are initiated by adults. The same could be true in other cultures because in the cosmopolitan town of Bunia (Eastern DRC), many children have been accused of witchcraft in recent years. Those ones I want to talk about in these following lines live…