Feitiçaria, sociedade e política

“Witchcraft, society and politics

It is often overlooked by politics analysts that one of the primary concerns of witchcraft has to do with what we in the West would call therapy. Although much work focuses on the more aspects of this healing process, witchcraft has also been instrumental in providing for psychological or social disorders associated with the modern post-colonial world.”

Patrick Chabal, Africa Works, Disorder as political instrument, Africam Issues, 1999, página 66.