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2/19/2004
7:02:22 pm EST
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Tanzania Gets 'Voodoo Newspaper'
Author: BBC
Source: BBC News
Title: TANZANIA GETS 'VOODOO NEWSPAPER'
A newspaper about witchcraft, superstition and life after death has been launched in Tanzania.
The publishers say "Jungu Kuu" (Big Pot) aims to educate people about witchcraft in a country where such beliefs are common.
There have been numerous reports of old women being killed after being accused of witchcraft.
Editor Munga Tehenan told the BBC that the paper would educate people to stop them being cheated by bogus healers.
"I do believe, but what is witchcraft?" he asks.
The BBC's John Ngahyoma in Dar-es-Salaam says the weekly paper's first lead story is a feature about how common it is for the dead to contact the living, using the example of a recently deceased popular musician.
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| Re: Tanzania Gets 'Voodoo Newspaper' | Feb 21st. at 7:26:07 am EST |
by Mr. Karel Sebek (Kalamazoo MI) - wc_xemail
What a marvelously ethicly ambigious idea. On the one hand, it seeks to dispel ignorance. On the other, it promotes native beliefs. With the admittedly Christian bias, the papers' development should be interesting to watch.
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