SOURCE : DAILY NATION - OBBO: An African president wages the strangest of wars
It is the witchcraft season in Africa. Over the weekend, there was a report on CNN about some frightening chaps in Burundi who had been arrested for the murder of their fellow citizens with albinism.
They, like others in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania, were supplying witchdoctors and other customers who believe that the limbs, skin, or intimate body parts of albinos can be used to bring one great wealth, to cure infertility, and to ward off evil spirits.
Dozens of albinos have been killed in the region for ritual purposes over the last two years.
In Kenya, in recent months there have been stories of old men with grey hair being hunted down because they were believed to be evil witchdoctors.
Old women with red eyes have been lynched in the ignorant belief that they are responsible for failed rains, poor harvests, and all manner of misfortunes.
