Somehow a number managed to regularize their trade and returned from seafaring with many fine things associated with modernity in the Western sense at the time: jeans clothes, ladies underwear, pressing irons, washing detergents and brassieres, perfumes and scented bath soaps, nice cars and many other such things. Sekondi-Takoradi is a port city and many of these young men on completing middle school took up odd jobs at the port and stowed away on ships at the least opportunity. When I was growing up in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana’s twin-city in the 1970s, most young men wanted to go to sea. To understand how black witchcraft works, consider this true story from my childhood.
Black Witchcraft: An Autobiographical Account The lyrics singled out mental problems as the chief means by witch black witchcraft may be used to bring victims to ruin and shame. “Black witchcraft” associated with black people, he noted is only used for destructive purposes. In an early 1970s highlife hit a popular Ghanaian musician sang that “white witchcraft” is good because it is used to promote communal welfare and development. Is there such a thing as “good witchcraft”? Witchcraft discourse now plays an important role in the understanding of modernity and the progress that some have made in a technologically sophisticated world (Cf.
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