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Re: Bravo Lamin Manga

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Editor, It is really a good thing to see a young Gambian brother doing something in his own country, which all the youths of The Gambia can...

BENIN: Sorcery-linked infanticides persist in north

Thursday, February 26, 2009

In northern Benin a baby born with a tooth, in silence or feet first is likely to be killed out of fear that the infant is cursed, according to local...

Atheism and the State of Belief in South Africa

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Friday, November 07, 2008

It remains remarkable that although atheism was only recently defined, its precepts are as old as our reliance upon gods and the occult, devised in...

Traditional Beliefs, Practices and Taboos

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Despite the strong Islamic and Christian influence in The Gambia today, people still retain certain practices originating from past animist beliefs....