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Encounter Southern Africa Magazine
Although regarded with extreme
skepticism by many, the uncanny healing power of the witch doctors (M'ganga) of
Africa are widely treated with respect by the medical profession. A witchdoctor
in Dakar, Senegal was once able to save the lives of many yellow..."
Encounter Southern Africa Magazine
Although regarded with extreme
skepticism by many, the uncanny healing power of the witch doctors (M'ganga) of
Africa are widely treated with respect by the medical profession. A witchdoctor
in Dakar, Senegal was once able to save the lives of many yellow fever patients
doomed to die where medical graduates from Paris stood by helplessly. Once too,
along the banks of the Congo River, a French doctor observed African surgery
being performed. His friends were treating a man with a very deep cut in the
forearm. They secured a number of large black ants over the wound. As each ant
bit into the flesh, the cut was drawn together. The body of each ant was removed
and the wound closed as neatly as though done by a surgeon's needle.
During the smallpox epidemics of the eighteenth century in Southern Africa,
there were no Bushman fatalities. They knew how to build immunity to certain
diseases and poisons. Bushmen used to demonstrate this by for instance placing a
tarantula spider on their hands, allowing themselves to be bitten and yet
showing no trace of suffering afterwards. A Bushman's consumption of food and
water has astounded doctors. A Bushman swells visibly as he consumes a small
buck. And yet he will be able to compete quite comfortably in a marathon in that
state. They will overtake a buck in the desert heat or chase a zebra for several
kilometers with hardly any rest. It is claimed that the Bushmen has a sixth
sense. They have a very highly developed and uncanny sense of direction, far
superior to an European or African. A Bushman may turn, circle and zigzag for
hours when hunting, but when returning to camp he will head exactly in the right
direction. A tribesman was teted by blindfolding and leading him through various
paths for several hours. When the cloth was removed, he pointed to the exact
direction of his camp. Children too, never lose their way. Together with this
"guiding instinct", they apparently see a vision of the trail ahead...
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By Ramon Thomas
From an interview with Credo Mutwa : Zulu Shaman, World renown traditional healer, Zulu
Sangoma and High Sanusi
In many western countries, when an old person dies it is simply the death of
an old human being who has gone through life and whose days on earth now come to
an end. But in Africa, the death of an elder- an old man or an old woman,
becomes a supreme disaster because in the mind of that elder often carries
knowledge passed down from parent to child. Knowl...The Memories of a Distant Star (Sirius)
The Dogan people of west of Africa
have a detailed knowledge of the universe that is astonishingly accurate. was it
as they claim, passed on by Ancient astronauts? Like many African tribes, the
Dogon people of the Republic of Mali have a shadowed past. They settled on the
Bandiagara Plateau, where they now live, some time between the 13th and 16th
centuries. For most of the year, their homeland - 300 miles (500 km) south of
Timbuktu - is a desolate, arid, rocky terrain of cliffs an...Stone age mass graves reveal green Sahara
Submitted by Marvy: One of the driest deserts in the world, the Saharan Tenere Desert, hosted at least two flourishing lakeside populations during the Stone Age, a discovery of the largest graveyard from the era reveals. The archaeological site in Niger, called Gobero, was discovered by Paul Sereno at the University of Chicago, during a dinosaur-hunting expedition. It had been used as a burial site by two very different populations during the millennia when the Sahara was lush. Careful examinati...Witchcraft legalised in Zimbabwe
News coming out of Zimbabwe has been surreal for quite some time, but from this month it could become even more so, as witchcraft and wizardry are legal again after a 107-year ban. But if President Robert Mugabe's new legislation is applied humanely then only good witches will find any solace in it, as the act prohibits the practice of witchcraft by people who use their supernatural powers to harm others.The 1899 prohibition which made it illegal to accuse anyone of being a witch or a wizard...Ancient tombs found near obelisk
Archaeologists have found a vast new network of royal tombs in Ethiopia, near the site where the 1,700-year-old Axum obelisk is to be re-erected. Experts using sophisticated imaging equipment discovered the burial chambers, even older than the obelisk, under a 1963 car park, said the UN. The stone monoliths were originally erected to mark burial sites for deceased members of the aristocracy. The final piece of the Axum obelisk was flown homefrom Italy on Monday. The whole structur...The African foundations of New York
The remains of 20,000 African men, women and children have lain beneath the busy streets of New York for 300 years, waiting to tell their stories on the extent of slavery in the city. In March 1992, leading African-America archaeologist Michael Blakey arrived at the burial ground in downtown Manhattan. "I had readabout these people documented as chattel, " he said. "Now I was going to learn about these Africans in New York as human beings." A haunting sight greeted hi...Early humans 'followed coast'
The first humans who left Africa to populate the world headed south along the coast of the Indian Ocean, Science magazine reports. Scientists had always thought the exodus from Africa around 70,000 years ago took place along a northern route into Europe and Asia. But according to a genetic study, early modern humans followed the beach, possibly lured by a seafood diet. They quickly reached Australia but took much longer to settle in Europe. Dr Martin Richards, of the University of...Comparison of Four African Creation Myths
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Encounter Southern Africa Magazine 
The Mysteries of the Dogan People
Humans, Reptilians and The Origins of the Gods
The Memories of a Distant Star (Sirius)
Stone age mass graves reveal green Sahara
Witchcraft legalised in Zimbabwe
Ancient tombs found near obelisk
The African foundations of New York
Early humans 'followed coast'
Comparison of Four African Creation Myths
Secrets of Great Zimbabwe
