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Flying Witches and Africans

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  • Well 10 years ago

    I would have supported your thesis four years age but my return from Ghana and what I experienced here in the US makes me to to have a after-thought. I used to challenge and argue just as your piece but when you have not come ...
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  • Efia 10 years ago

    If you believe in witches like you said don't you think they can "hurt" you wherever you are without even visiting Ghana?

  • Pelicles 10 years ago

    There are witchcraft schools in Manhattan and what do they do or teach? They guard people through witchcraft. Those in the Western world view witchcraft like a religion. Get enrolled and by graduation, you will become a wit ...
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  • Ebo 10 years ago

    Efia asked if Well has to visit Ghana before the witchcrafts can hurt him. Meaning they can hurt him while he is in the US. Do you know the backgrounds of those witchcraft students in Manhattan? They are high school drop outs ...
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  • GAWUKO 10 years ago

    Is that your only concern, that one cannot get a Master's degree or PhD in witchcraft. It is a show of arrogance if you think people who enroll in witchcraft schools are drop outs. Just visit one and you will have the shock o ...
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  • Diprof 10 years ago

    The fact that there're witchcraft schools doesn't mean real witches exist. My question is: CAN THOSE STUDENTS IN THE SCHOOL ACTUALLY FLY OR TRANSFORM THEMSELVES FROM A HUMAN BEING TO A CAT OR OTHER TYPE OF ANIMAL???? For me I ...
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  • Agya Ansah 10 years ago

    THE MODERN DAY VIEW OF WITCHCRAFT IN EUROPE AND AMERICA IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM THE AFRICAN VIEW. THE AFRICAN VIEW IS LIKE THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS WHERE PEOPLE FLY. THIS IDEA HAS BEEN COMPLETELY ABANDONED BY CIVILIZED PEO ...
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  • AFRIKABI 10 years ago

    BROTHER IGWE, THIS IS A VERY POWERFUL ARTICLE. WE NEED MORE AFRICANS LIKE YOU BEFORE WE CAN CATCH UP WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD.

    WE SHAL PERPETUALLY REMAIN BACKWARD IF WE DONT FREE OUR CHLDREN'S MIND FROM THE SHACKLES OF S ...
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  • yankee 10 years ago

    Lord have mercy on these fools. Education, brothers and sisters. Why even worry about these copla.

  • Agya Ansah 10 years ago

    Belief in witches and other African metaphysical worldviews do not necessary make us ignorant or put us backward

    SUPERSTITION IS SUPERSTITION. THE ONLY WAY FORWARD AND THE ONLY WAY THAT HAS DEVELOPED MANKING IS SCIENCE. TH ...
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  • kokoase boy 10 years ago

    Igwe is a very intelligent person far ahead of most africans. that is why he is not understood. most of us are stuck in the past, in pre-historic times. i bet some still believe rivers are gods. The Thames and Volta and Nile ...
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  • professor 10 years ago

    You should read Cosmopolitanism by Kwame Anthony Appiah, plus other stuff on African cosmology. There are things that do not make sense when viewed from the western epistemological analysis. But, you know, they make sense fro ...
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  • Well 10 years ago

    Efia is saying I am useless I hope he/she reads the piece of Professor. If u do not believe that's your piece. Everything and anything that have a name exist.

  • Mr Figure-Out 10 years ago

    It is not true that anything that has name exist. Can you tell me what animal has the name 'ofui'.

  • Biko 10 years ago

    Ofui is the hyena

  • Pelicles 10 years ago

    I do not know your tribe but if you do not know that Ofui is hyena then I am sorry for you. Ofui is Hyena.

  • JB Ansong 10 years ago

    I can bet my last dime that the Akan word for Hyena is SAKRAMAN and not Ofui, which is only an insulting term like Aboa. Truly, both Ofui and Aboa do not exist: both are abstract and do not mean any particular animal.

  • Pelicles 10 years ago

    If sakraman is hyena, what about Pataku? Sakraman is wolf. Ofui is another name for hyena and the real name is Pataku.

  • Naa Adjeley Adjei 10 years ago

    Since childhood we have all been taught to believe in witches. So we dont question it even though there is no proof. Those like you think outside the box and challenge our preconceptions. I respect highly people like you.

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  • JH New York 10 years ago

    The guy who wrote this article exposed to the world his gross imaginary misconceptions and ignorance on the subject and also about the Western world.How does he takes education to be.He speaks like pre day nursery Child.
    I'm ...
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  • kokoase boy 10 years ago

    what proof do you have that a fireball is a witch? in the past my grandmother told me a rainbow is a giant snake. i have seen arainbow but is it a giant snake?

    When you saw the fireball did it transform into an old woman r ...
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  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    So if a witch doctor or a pastor, reverend minister, bishop etc. told me that my illness or my unsuccessfulness is/was caused by you "professor" through witchcraft should I believe them Or will you deny it? Believe me most of ...
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  • Pelicles 10 years ago

    There are witchcraft schools or societies in Manhattan and what do they do? The fact that one is educated does not negate the fact that those things do not exist. Science cannot explain anything or everything. A BBC jou ...
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  • Mr Figure-Out 10 years ago

    Apart from old women, women and mostly iliterates, have you guys ever witness even a poor village pupil teacher who has been accused of witchcraft in your life? Is it not strange to you that no medical doctor, lawyer, enginee ...
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  • professor 10 years ago

    You see Akadu, you miss the point I am trying to make here. The writer is tying belief in witchcraft with ignorance, but the premise is faulty. The idea of witchraft is an aspect of epistemology that we can choose to accept ...
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  • Mr Figure-Out 10 years ago

    Go down to the grassroots and verify for yourself those who become victims of witchcraft accusations. You don't need to make any comprehensive study on epistemology to know the truth about the misconception of witchcraft.

  • AFRIKABI 10 years ago

    THE BELIEF IN WITCHCRAFT IS NOT AFRICAN, IT IS THE BELIEF OF ALL PEOPLE WHO CANNOT EXPLAIN THE WORLD AROUND THEM. PRE-SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES HAD TO EXPLAIN DISEASE, THUNDER, VOLCANOES ETC. ALL SOCIETIES EXPLAINED THESE THINGS I ...
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  • professor 10 years ago

    Akadu, could you go on youtube and check the nudity and worship and you will be amazed by white witches and their own epistemology. Whites, not aborigines.

  • Ebo 10 years ago

    I have seen both Whites and Blacks who claim they are witches and can create a human being. That's their believe and they can believe all they want to. All I am saying is it's a believe not a fact. The Whites in Australia who ...
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  • professor 10 years ago

    Have you done your research very well or are you just using a broad brushstroke? In any case, you also seem to mix the argument here. Belief in the existence of witches is an epistemology in itself that should not be discount ...
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  • The Dunce 10 years ago

    Epistemology is a philosophical analysis of the nature and the grounds of knowledge. To claim that 'belief in the existence of witches is an epistemology in itself' has no conceptual coherence. In short, it is nonsense.
    On w ...
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  • kojo 10 years ago

    a whole minister talking like a child. fools are the only ones who believe in witches. why dont they accuse lawyers and doctors of being witches. only pool old powerless women. does this make sense to any thinking person?

  • professor 10 years ago

    Ebo, BTW the bible theology includes strong belief in evil spirits including sorcery, necromancy, witchcraft and indwelling of evil spirits among other things.Will you discount this as something to be expunged from the Bible ...
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  • TROUBLE-MAKER 10 years ago

    If you don`t believe in what the Prof is saying,I will personally recommend a site to you online to follow.
    It will shock and scare the hell out of you when following the online instructions .
    I hope you don`t want to see y ...
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  • AFRIKABI 10 years ago

    If you don`t believe in what the Prof is saying,I will personally recommend a site to you online to follow.
    It will shock and scare the hell out of you when following the online instructions

    I WANT THE SITE. GIVE ME THE ...
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  • kojo 10 years ago

    I would like to visit this site too. where is it?

  • JH New York 10 years ago

    The guy who wrote this article exposed to the world his gross imaginary misconceptions and ignorance on the subject and also about the Western world.How does he takes education to be.Education has nothing to do with Spiritual ...
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  • Hk 10 years ago

    Very good comment

  • Joe 10 years ago

    Yes Corruption is part of what is killing Africa Yes but if I know I can go to A Juju man or a pastor who can make me superstitiously belief that I will not be exposed from any of my corrupt or stealing activities by drinking ...
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  • EMMA 10 years ago

    The phenomena is still world wide. The only difference is that Western nations witches practice without cover up, and polish it in diff. ways.

  • Ebo 10 years ago

    Is it because we cover up to practice witchcraft that's why we are not successful and the western nations that practice it openly and polish it are successful?

  • AFRIKABI 10 years ago

    Is it because we cover up to practice witchcraft that's why we are not successful and the western nations that practice it openly and polish it are successful?

    JUST THE KIND OF PERSON WHO BELIEVES IN GIVING OLD WOMEN A BAD ...
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  • TOM TOM 10 years ago

    Efia. Note that Witches are evil and I support what Well is saying. There is evil in this world and witches are evil and its true. Even in the Bible its there that Christ was tempted by satan. Is that not evil. You may not be ...
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  • Akosua 10 years ago

    Are you a witch and you have hurt people through witchcraft so you know that for a fact? Or you are talking about something you just have a believe in?
    If somebody tells me your evil witch and you are causing Ghana's problem ...
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  • Tsetsekule 10 years ago

    IT IS NOT ONLY IN AFRICA BUT RATHER EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD, AND THEY ARE ALL EVEIL THEY CAN'T DO GOOD WITH IT BUT EVIL.THINGS

    How do you know? you have no evidence and no proof. as africans, we have all heard this before. ...
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  • VICKY LEE BENTON 10 years ago

    IT IS NOT ONLY IN AFRICA BUT RATHER EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD, AND THEY ARE ALL EVEIL THEY CAN'T DO GOOD WITH IT BUT EVIL.THINGS. I USE TO THINK THE WHITE WITCHES USE THEIR POWERS TO INVENT THINGS BUT BOUYE WAS I WRONG, THEY AL ...
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  • Efia 10 years ago

    You said, "I USE TO THINK THE WHITE WITCHES USE THEIR POWERS TO INVENT THINGS BUT BOUYE WAS I WRONG...."
    But, that time you had that strong believe(not a fact) that you were right. What makes you think that some wherein the ...
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  • Diprof 10 years ago

    Believe in witchcraft is predominantly found in third world countries especially in Africa. In the western world people who believe in witchcraft might be not more than 1% whiles in my rough estimation more than 95% of people ...
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  • Biko 10 years ago

    When the western people encounter witches, the say they are UFO, (Unidentified flying object). I heard on radio someone narrating his encounter with these beings while he was driving on the highway in the USA. He saw balls of ...
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  • kokoase boy 10 years ago

    europeans and white know what witchcraft believes are. They killed for this false beliefs. UFO are super large objects that people see. these are not the so-called witches that we still believe in.

  • VICKY LEE BENTON 10 years ago

    LET ME TELL YOU, BEFORE YOU INGEST YOU INGEST YOUR MIND WITH DISBELIEF, THE WHITES COMPLAIN ABOUT THEIR RELATIVES WHO PRACTICE WITCHCRAFT JUST LIKE WE DO IN AFRICA. THEY DO THE SAME EVIL THINGS TO THEIR PEOPLE. THERE ARE ...
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  • VICKY LEE BENTON 10 years ago

    AND HAS BEEN AN EXISTENCE SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD.
    I USE TO THINK THOSE GENIUSES PRACTICE WITCHCRAFT TO INVENT GOOD THINGS, I WAS WRONG. THEY HAVE A GIFT AND THEY FOLLOW THROUGH. GOD GAVE EVERY HUMAN BEING A GIFT B ...
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  • Naa AAdjeley Adjei 10 years ago

    AND HAS BEEN AN EXISTENCE SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD.

    people believe in ancient times that thunder was caused by the gods. All people, Greeks, Romans, Native Americans, believed this. This was because scientific educ ...
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  • Agya Ansah 10 years ago

    THE WHITES COMPLAIN ABOUT THEIR RELATIVES WHO PRACTICE WITCHCRAFT JUST LIKE WE DO IN AFRICA.

    Read a little bit about the Salem witch trials in America and the witch Hunt in Europe. Only a small % of Americans believe in wi ...
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  • VICKY LEE BENTON 10 years ago

    NO I'VE NEVER SEEN A SCHOOL BUILDING. YOU SICK BASTARD, YOU ARE ENTITLED TO YOUR OPINION BUT TO HAVE AN AUDACITY TO INSULT ME IS A BARBARIC THING TO DO. I AM MARRIED TO A WHITE GUY FOR 30YRS. YOU LIVED IN EUROPE DOING ODD JO ...
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  • Agya Ansah 10 years ago

    I AM MARRIED TO A WHITE GUY FOR 30YRS.

    Being married to a white man means nothing. You are married to one white man, not the entire white race. There are white people who think they are vampires. Yes, there are educated wh ...
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  • VICKY LEE BENTON 10 years ago

    A WORKING CLASS? YOUR THE ONE WHO HAVE A NORMAL BORING LIFE. F.Y.I. I LIVE IN THE UPPER WEST SIDE. IN MANHATTAN SO GO FIGURE. NO WORKING CLASS LIVES THERE. YOU FREAK.

  • VICKY LEE BENTON 10 years ago

    WHAT IS YOUR ZIP CODE? AND I WILL TELL YOU THE CLASS YOU BELONG IN SOCIETY
    YOU THINK YOU..ARE EDUCATED? TRY TO ADD A LITTLE INTELLIGENCE TO IT. YOU KNOW NOTHING, YOU'VE READ BOOKS THUS ALL. YOUR BRAIN IS SQUASHED.
    WE ARE ...
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  • VICKY LEE BENTON 10 years ago

    USE YOUR BRAIN TO CREAT LIFE FOR YOURSELF AND STOP COLLECTING PAY CHECKS. I HAVE A DEGREE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION. SO YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO IS EDUCATED HERE. TRY TO ADD A LITTLE BIT OF INTELLIGENCE TO YOUR LIFE.

  • Tommy 10 years ago

    Vicki, we are talking about witches and you are talking somethin else. Agya is right. nobody has shown any facts that witches are real. you have no proof that your sister wants to harm you. this is why ther are fights and div ...
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  • Tsetsekule 10 years ago

    it is the 21st century and african still believe old women can fly. this is why we cannot compete with the japanese or germans. we believe in stupidity.

  • Ganyobi 10 years ago

    we shall all grow old. leave the old folks alone. stop this witchcraft garbage.

  • zee 10 years ago

    Its just science like every other mixture of ion and patrol a couple of buttons. The difference here is a broom a couple of plants and animal organs a few words and we air, not only africans do it if not the person who wrote ...
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  • VICKY LEE BENTON 10 years ago

    I HAVE A DEGREE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION. IF YOU THINK YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO IS EDUCATED USE.YOUR BRAIN TO CREATE LIFE FOR YOUR SELF. AND STOP COLLECTING PAY CHECKS..

  • kojo 10 years ago

    I HAVE A DEGREE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION. IF YOU THINK YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO IS EDUCATED USE.YOUR BRAIN TO CREATE LIFE FOR YOUR SELF. AND STOP COLLECTING PAY CHECKS..

    this issue is about witches not what you do. Agya ...
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  • VICKY LEE BENTON 10 years ago

    I LET MY EMOTIONS GOT THE BEST OF ME CAUSE THAT JERK PISSED ME OFF.
    YOU ARE ENTITLED TO YOUR OPINION, BUT I STAND BY MY WORDS THAT WITCHCRAFT EXIST AND THE WHITES PRACTICE IT ALSO. I'VE GOT MY OWN PROVE.
    I AM EDUCATED LIKE ...
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