Women and Witchcraft Accusations in Colonial Nigeria

IF 0.1 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Preternature-Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural Pub Date : 2022-08-24 DOI:10.5325/preternature.11.2.0307

U. Okonkwo

引用次数: 1

Abstract

abstract:In terms of witchcraft accusations, Nigeria occupies the unenviable position as one of the most female-gender unfriendly nations of the world. To date, witchcraft accusations are still part of Nigerian daily life experiences. However, this article emphasizes witchcraft accusation during the colonial period in Nigeria. The available demographic evidence of witchcraft stigmatizations points mainly at women. This article relies therefore on fragments of sources from Nigeria from four major national archives—those at Ibadan, Kaduna, and Enugu. In addition, a body of existing knowledge on the subject has been collated, analyzed, and adduced in writing this article using the descriptive method of analysis.

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尼日利亚殖民时期的妇女和巫术指控

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Preternature-Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： Preternature provides an interdisciplinary, inclusive forum for the study of topics that stand in the liminal space between the known world and the inexplicable. The journal embraces a broad and dynamic definition of the preternatural that encompasses the weird and uncanny—magic, witchcraft, spiritualism, occultism, esotericism, demonology, monstrophy, and more, recognizing that the areas of magic, religion, and science are fluid and that their intersections should continue to be explored, contextualized, and challenged.