Voicing African Voices

Author

Didier Péclard

Didier Péclard is a Senior lecturer at the Global Studies Institute, University of Geneva. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Sciences-Po Paris (2005). His research interests include religion and politics, nationalism, as well as the dynamics of peace-building and state formation in Africa.

Anthropology Social Sciences

Debating Witchcraft in Africa

by Didier Péclard and Jean-Pierre Warnier

The “Magritte Effect” Given the circularity of the witchcraft complex in Africa, given its performative potential, isn’t the flood of anthropological publications on the…

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