Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Painful ethnographic memories -- Witchcraft: A kaleidoscope and an anthropological metanarrative -- Perspectives -- References -- 1 Agencies, jurisdictions and paradigms in the shaping of witchcraft -- A paradigm of power in West Africa -- The glorification of power in sixteenth-century Europe -- Witchcraft as a paradigm of evil power -- The canonical doctrine -- Witchcraft: Dream or reality? -- Popular beliefs: Superstitions or countertheories? -- A bridge across the Atlantic -- References -- 2 Witchcraft, medicine and British colonial rule: Anthropological analysis of colonial documents in the Gold Coast -- The colonial encounter -- Anti-witchcraft laws: The Gold Coast and the new courts -- The health care system: Public health and segregationist politics -- The colonial governance: Between witchcraft and public health -- References -- 3 Witchcraft and dream: A discussion of the Akan case -- My hypothesis -- Akan witchcraft -- My ethnographic evidence -- The reality of dream -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Witchcraft and religion in the process of formation of the public space in Ghana -- Accra's disenchantment -- Finding magical modernity: Nana Kwaku Bonsam -- Beyond civil society -- Juju, citizenship and political action -- References -- 5 Where Christianity is ancient: Pentecostalism, evil in the world and the break with the past in Ethiopia -- Pentecostalism and charismatism in Africa -- Rupture and continuity in African Pentecostalism -- Pentecostals in Ethiopia -- Two stories regarding the occult -- Demonizing as a way to make a break with the past -- References -- 6 "Be Yesus Sh'm": Breaking with the national past in Eritrean and Ethiopian Pentecostal churches in Rome -- Guerrilla and diaspora: Sixty years of Eritrean history