DEBATING WITCHCRAFT IN AFRICA

Given the circularity of the witchcraft complex in Africa, given its performative potential, isn&rsquo,t the flood of anthropological publications on the topic counter-productive insofar as it feeds what it pretends to analyse, and even stigmatize? Wouldn&rsquo,t the social scientists be well advised not to emulate the media and the Evangelical preachers and to avoid bestowing on Africa the dubious privilege of being no more than a shadow theatre devoid of substance on the stage of which everything &ndash, power, work, production, economy, the family &ndash, would actually be played in the occult? In this publication, eight scholars &ndash, namely