Witchcraft, Confessions and Accusations in Colonial Africa

Record summary

This lead concerns studies of witchcraft accusations, confessions, and colonial legal records assembled in the late-colonial and postcolonial scholarly literature, including work by historians and anthropologists on East, Central, and Southern Africa. It matters for comparison because accusations can reveal political conflict, gendered suspicion, therapeutic practice, and changing authority rather than proving supernatural harm. The exact item should be identified through bibliographic checking because several similarly titled collections appeared around this period, and the material spans multiple countries and earlier decades.