What have you missed since June?
If you’ve signed up to receive this blog by email (as you can do using the link on the right), then you may well have missed several posts over the past few months. I shifted to a new web-host at the...
View ArticleChart of the week #24: Attacks on people with albinism across Africa
Witchcraft-related attacks on people with albinism are big news in Tanzania, and have been for some years. Back in 2008, Vicky Ntetema, then working for the BBC, first went undercover to investigate,...
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It really is “nothing but witchcraft” in Sani newspaper
“Uchawi Mtupu” (“Nothing but witchcraft”) – Sani 24/1/15 I spotted this newspaper headline last Saturday. “Urais Mwaka 2015: Uchawi Mtupu”, which roughly translates as “2015 Presidency: Nothing but...
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“Elderly woman drops to earth while travelling in the air,” apparently
In Mtanzania today, a remarkable story, particularly when you note that this is a respectable newspaper, nothing like Sani: an elderly woman apparently fell from the sky above Shinyanga. The article...
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Tanzania Albinism Society calls for public demonstration on March 2 –...
Following the recent attacks on two young children with albinism, the latest in a long series of attacks, the Tanzania Albinism Society has called a public demonstration in Dar es Salaam on March 2....
View ArticleTranslated excerpts from President Kikwete’s monthly address – on attacks...
President Kikwete declined to receive the planned demonstration by the Tanzania Albinism Society (TAS) yesterday, which was then banned by the police. However, in his latest monthly address he spoke...
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Chart #37: Spiritual beliefs in sub-Saharan Africa – religion, superstition...
These interactive charts draw on data I have used before – the 2010 Pew survey of religious beliefs in sub-Saharan Africa (see full report and data here – pdf). I post the data again here with more...
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UK Film Premiere of White Shadow – Friday March 20th, 2015
With the recent spate of horrific attacks on people with albinism in Tanzania, the UK Premiere of a new film, White Shadow, is very timely. From the film’s publicity material: White Shadow, set in...
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White Shadow review (in the Guardian): a brutal, honest portrayal of...
Alias is the young albino boy who lives in fear of his life. Photograph: White Shadow /Pressshot This review was originally published by the (UK) Guardian Africa Network on March 19, 2015. White...
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“Traditional healers” and us. What it means when children are being murdered...
The Citizen front pages, Jan 30 and Feb 3, 2019 The tragedy is unspeakable, the acts incomprehensible: eleven children murdered in and around the town of Njombe in the space of a few weeks. There are,...
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