The Witchdoctor’s Craft

Abstract

Much confusion over the roles and presence of witchdoctors in Africa is clarified through careful attention to epistemology. Witchdoctor’s provide utility, usually deceptively, through arranging for suffering or demise of others on your behalf so as to enable you to feel good. In contexts in which others’ feelings hurt you, the witchdoctor’s craft may be essential, until Jesus enters the scene. Jesus’s Way of Truth brings fulness of Life to believers. Informed etic articulation of traditional African ways of life in this article throws light onto contemporary concerns over fake news.