Nchimi Chikanga: The Battle Against Witchcraft In Malawi – Boston Soko & Gerhard Kubik

Description

“Chikanga was one of Malawi’s most powerful and successful healers who brought concepts and methods from indigenous tradition to his own Christian culture. During the fifties and sixties people having heard he had the power of divination to free them from the bondage of witchcraft and other evil practices, would make pilgrimages to him from the whole of eastern and southern Africa. His methods were, and are, popular and common, though always controversially opposed by the institutional Christian church. This book documents eye-witness accounts of pilgrims, and Chikanga’s sessions and techniques, and includes interviews with his acquaintances. It describes his activities in the political context, which forced him to go into exile for seventeen years, and his final period in Malawi.”

Price: R330.00

Edition: First edition, second impression

Published: 2003

Publisher: Christian Literature Association in Malawi

ISBN: 99908-16-45-X

Condition: Scuff marks on the cover. Internally in very good condition – clean and tightly bound.