RAW DOGMA written by Nkrumah Steward
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| Eight Witch Doctors Beaten To Death Over Missing Penis |
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Lagos, Nigeria eight members of a religious group accused of using
black magic to make a man's penis disappear had the shit kicked
out of them by an angry a mob. The mob beat them to death with sticks
and then burnt their bodies just to be safe.
The victims were all members of the Brotherhood
of the Cross and Star the local newspaper reported.
The sect was holding a conference in the city when a resident,
Kunle Eniola, suddenly claimed members of the brotherhood had
caused his penis to disappear. Shortly after a mob formed and
the Angry residents quickly pounced on the meeting and beat eight
members to death.
Belief in magic is widespread in Nigeria, as are instances of people
being killed for allegedly using their power to fuck people up.
I promised a reader in South Africa that I would to make a point
of noting to my American readership that Africa
is not a country but a continent
and that some places in Africa are modern. Now
with that said, before I go off and condemn the sheer ass backwardness
of the apparent thriving black magic industry which appears to
be racking in a huge profit damn near all over the continent, I
will say that although it seems ass backwards I understand it.
Humans
are the weakest species on the planet and no one knows that more than
the African. They watch elephants put away 250 pounds of food a day
and still are able to out run us.
So many things are stronger than us. It is pointless to list them.
One black Mamba snake moves into the area looking for humans to eat and
the whole village has to pick up, pack up and move on the dime. Even
today when a black mamba sighting is confirmed in the vicinity of
a village they call in the military on the "red
phone" and they come armed to the teeth like they are hunting
the Predator, round up the snake and airlift it to some place where
people haven't populated.
If
I lived in a straw hut right next to a pack of drought hungry lions,
rhinoceroses, and hyenas and lord knows what else surrounding me
every single day and all I had to protect myself was a loin cloth
and a spear, I would probably resort to the other world magic to
gain some sense of sanity over my life. So I can see where they are
coming from. However, that would have all ended as soon as I got
my hand on a fire-stick (gun) during the slave trade. So basically
they have no excuse to still hire witch doctors to send ghosts to
beat up playground bullies at parochial schools, or to make concoctions
that make you impervious to gun fire, but I admit cultural habits
die hard.
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