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In February 2016, the world was gripped by the photo of a starved-to-death boy, accused of witchcraft and banished by his family and community. The two-year-old was extremely emaciated. He was living on the streets for 8 months. He was eating scraps thrown by passers-by. In order to help children like him, Dominika Kulczyk and her Foundation reaches out to African Benin. In many African countries, thousands of children who are claimed witches are abandoned, tortured or even murdered. An ethnic group Bariba, living in the northern part of Benin, is especially brutal in this regard. According to the Bariba's tradition, child-witches are those that have been "wrongly born"; for instance, those born in the breech position, with their head down or with tooth buds. The Bariba people don't believe that such a child can be "cured" - the tradition is ruthless: they have to die. 22-year-old Djamila was one of such children. She was miraculously saved by her aunt and ....
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Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, has an identity crisis. Although its language and dominant culture is Yoruba, the people insist that they are not Yoruba but ‘Ilorin,’ an amorphous identity that does not draw from ethnicity but rather from a fluid cultural identity that evolved due to the unique history of the people and the ....
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Why Ilorin Is Yoruba, by Julius Ogunro. Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, has an identity crisis. Although its language and dominant culture is Yoruba ....