SPELLBOUND
Inside West Africa's Witch Camps
Author: Palmer, Karen

Review Date: August 1, 2010
Publisher:Free Press
Pages: 256
Price ( Hardback ): $25.00
Publication Date: October 26, 2010
ISBN ( Hardback ): 978-1-4391-2050-7
Category: Nonfiction
Classification: Cultural Studies

Anecdote-rich account of how witchcraft pervades the culture of a stress-ridden region of Africa caught between ancient traditions and modernism.

Palmer, a Canadian journalist working in Ghana to improve investigations of human-rights abuses, became curious about witch camps after she ...

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