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It is difficult to believe either the reality of witchcraft or the common rumour that the practice performs miracles in Africa.

Witch doctors were powerless as everybody else was in face of colonialism, yet there is no doubt that a real witch doctor would not have hesitated to put their powers to use and done something decisive against colonial brutality, such as commanding all the bees in Africa to sting the coloniser.

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