Why kinship societies kill their old - David Oks
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The economic logic of modern-day witch killings
Why kinship societies kill their old The economic logic of modern-day witch killings David Oks Jun 16, 2026 587 68 68 Share A resident at a “witch camp” in northern Ghana Here is the story of a murder. In northern Ghana, on the western bank of the Volta river, there is a village called Kafaba. There’s not much I can say about Kafaba that would make it seem special or remarkable in any real way: indeed there’s no real sense in which Kafaba is very different from the other villages nearby. Like the other villages around it, Kafaba is a farming community, populated by members of an ethnic group c
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