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“The spirit is hiding in the children … the fire burns brightly, the spirit of witchcraft” Pastor South London Church, 2010 Those who visit regularly will know that I’m interested in contemporary manifestations of African witchcraft belief. I wrote about witch hunts centring on children in Nigeria, after an award-winning ‘Dispatches’ which followed the...

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