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Money rituals and our African traditional religions, By Abimbola Adelakun

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If an alien is captured in a Hollywood film, the state imprisons it to weaponise its capabilities. Nollywood does not make alien films, but our cinematic representations of contact with non-human forces regularly reflect an individual seeking money. That was how I concluded that if we ever capture an alien in this part of the […]

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The logic of what Nigerians call ‘money rituals’, By Abimbola Adelakun

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What I find highly frustrating in discussions of certain killings in Nigeria is the assumption that the deaths were about “money rituals.” In instances of violent murders where the motive remains unclear, people allege ritual killings. The tendency to immediately conclude that certain instances of homicides are ritual killing could, unfortunately, be providing an alibi […]

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