The whole "witch doctor" thing, and voodoo and all the superstitions that African's have is no joke. Apparently surrounding our district there are four practicing witch doctors, which isn't a whole lot. Child sacrifice is still a big thing. They will only sacrifice, "perfect" children. The people are very spiritual, and will easily believe things. At the orphanage, Christianity is taught, and they are very accepting and believe the things taught, but at the same time believe that some lady gave birth to a snake in the village last week. In one of my classes we were on the subject of "right" vs. "wrong" and the kids were naming off things that are "wrong" to do, and one child said "child sacrifices". My mouth dropped, I hadn't realised that that was a part of their life. In church on Sunday the paster prayed that the government and the police would get on enforcing the law around child sacrifices more and that this country would learn that that is wrong. My first reaction was how horrible this is, but don't we kill babies in America too? Before they even have a chance to leave the womb.
Check out these links and debates from Ugandan News sources:
http://www.newvision.co.ug/B/D/628/9http://www.religionnewsblog.com/15637/child-sacrifice-is-on-the-rise-in-ugandaWe had some people come in and give a puppet show to the kids today during school. They loved it, it was very cute. But, back on the superstitions thing, my housemate Laura was telling me that when she was in Kenya, they gave a puppet show to some of the kids, and the children and even teachers came up to them after the show and said "where are the people that were talking" refering to the puppets. It's hard for them to understand some things.
Apparently in Nigeria in January a goat was arrested for robbing a bank.
(Article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7846822.stm )
However, I still love it here.
